Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 333.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:06:15 +0100
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@mulberrytech.com>
Subject: Re: 14.0327 method/methodology in the definition of
primitives?
At 07:34 AM 10/9/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Could we then say that Unsworth's
>primitives are methodological whereas the lower-level software primitives,
>such as SORT, are methodical?
That seems useful to me.
To the kind of "methodical" primitives we have talked about, such as sort,
filter, transform (note that in this context 'transform' is a *mechanical*
exercise), we should certainly add the work that goes into *preparing* an
electronic text and whatever apparatus we might bring to it (our word lists
and so forth). It's too easy to forget this aspect of the work.
Which takes us directly back to "methodological" primitives, textual
criticism etc. It seems there's no escaping the human aspect of humanities.
(Which is fortunate.)
Regards,
Wendell
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