Random Arguments: A life in Learning

by Jerry Y. Diakiw

The psychologist Jerome Bruner opened my eyes to the fact that argument and story are two ways of knowing: "two modes of cognitive functioning, two modes of thought, each providing distinctive ways of ordering experience, of constructing reality . . . a good story and a well-formed argument are different, natural kinds. Arguments convince one of their truth, stories of their life-likeness". In my first volume Random Memories: Reflection on a Life,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1777463408
• ISBN13: 9781777463403
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Heritage Branch Library and Archives Canada
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"