Does that count as a business expense?pic.twitter.com/brJIwyqLgN
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Harold Garfinkel, the founder of ethnomethodology, studied financial accounting during the Depression as the “learn to code!” of the day. Accounting analogies are pervasive in his work. Pragmatic mundane realism marks his later studies of scientists at work too.pic.twitter.com/MxqNLAPqmj
Lucy Suchman, from whom I learned most of what little I know of ethnomethodology, did a thesis on Xerox’s business travel reimbursement practices. That was the inspiration for the story I posted at the beginning of this thread. [I can’t find this thesis online, unfortunately!]pic.twitter.com/1CbhobYtJ1
Understanding this interface between “mere reasonableness” and formal rationality is a prerequisite for meta-rationality. Reworking the details of that interface is a central meta-rational concern. For example…
In experimental science, you never have “data” in the rationalist sense. You got some numbers from some unenumerably complex semi-characterized process. Which ones COUNT, and which are garbage? That meta-rational question is THE WHOLE JOB OF SCIENCE:https://twitter.com/hardsci/status/1069755156336599040 …
One of the major accounting theorists Mattessich wrote a book “Reality and Accounting: Ontological Explorations in the Economic and Social Sciences.”pic.twitter.com/whAY6orepu
Whoa! Thank you!
So the point of formal rationality is to quantify everyday reasonableness, so once it is quantified we can subject it to the laws of mathematics?
Not really… explaining why not takes a book
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