Fashionable Nonsense
When mapping one science domain to another and borrowing terminology even metaphorically one rule to follow is to provide justification. This is very important otherwise people will laugh once they recognize that terminology was just thrown without any explanation or connection. For me this book was very important reading because I also mapped some computer science and engineering technology terminology to the domain of project management. However I provided some sort of justification to my relief.
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science
- Dmitry Vostokov @ LiterateScientist.com -
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