Consider the Context, Again
One of the most important lessons from the Dreyfus model is the realization that although the novice needs context-free rules, the expert uses context-dependent intuition.
The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in his experience many lies. The fish is not that color, that texture, that dead, nor does he smell that way.
➤ John Steinbeck, The Sea of Cortez
In The Log from the Sea of Cortez [Ste95], Steinbeck muses on the interplay of context and truth. You can describe a Mexican Sierra fish in the laboratory. All you have to do is “open an evil smelling jar, remove a stiff colorless fish from formalin solution, count the spines, and write the truth ‘D. XVII-l5-IX.’” That’s a scientific ...
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