It is not a smooth read - interspersed with so many references, footnotes and other academic links - all make it difficult to actually 'read' it. Its more like tackling a puzzle, or a maze, where you are presented with many related and inter-related facts and views. You need to take them, separate them out into the constituent parts and then build it back up together to make a coherent whole.
Is my way of thinking, or more specifically, my way of expressing myself, so completely different from Prof Ison? Surely it can't be. There are so many points I empathise with (conceptually) but when he goes into the detail of an explanation I just lose the thread completely. Frustrating doesn’t do it justice as a word.
And on the subject of words or 'living in a language' - this feels like an academic treatise written for an academic audience where the purpose is to impress with use of obscure language. Not just using precise language to articulate a point or convey a specific meaning. But using language which is so far from the norm its incomprehensible eg 'ontolgy'
However, maybe it's all deliberate to force me out of my comfort zone, encourage me to learn and expand my thinking?
Systems Practice - the book
I am finding this book impenetrable.
It is not a smooth read - interspersed with so many references, footnotes and other academic links - all make it difficult to actually 'read' it. Its more like tackling a puzzle, or a maze, where you are presented with many related and inter-related facts and views. You need to take them, separate them out into the constituent parts and then build it back up together to make a coherent whole.
Is my way of thinking, or more specifically, my way of expressing myself, so completely different from Prof Ison? Surely it can't be. There are so many points I empathise with (conceptually) but when he goes into the detail of an explanation I just lose the thread completely. Frustrating doesn’t do it justice as a word.
And on the subject of words or 'living in a language' - this feels like an academic treatise written for an academic audience where the purpose is to impress with use of obscure language. Not just using precise language to articulate a point or convey a specific meaning. But using language which is so far from the norm its incomprehensible eg 'ontolgy'
However, maybe it's all deliberate to force me out of my comfort zone, encourage me to learn and expand my thinking?