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Learning: learning is acquiring the ability to establish relationships between signs, symptoms or symbols and objects. This also includes e.g. recognition and recollection of patterns, similarities, sensory perceptions, self-perception, etc. In the ideal case, the ability to apply generalizations to future cases is acquired while learning. See also knowledge, knowledge-how, competence.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Gregory Bateson on Learning - Dictionary of Arguments

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Learning/Bateson: all learning is in a certain way stochastic, i.e. it consists first of trial and error.
Terminology/Bateson:
Learning I: we call it the withdrawal of a choice within an unchanged set of alternatives.
Learning II: we call it the revision of a set of alternatives.
I 372
Learning I: here we need a concept of self-sameness. To do this, we need the concept of context.
>Identity
, >Context.
I 374
Context: we need it to distinguish between different sets of alternative n.
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Learning II: also learn transfer or learning of learning.
I 379
Learning III/Bateson: a change in the process of learning II.
>Levels/order, >Description Levels.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

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G. Bateson
Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology, San Francisco 1972
German Edition:
Ökologie des Geistes. Anthropologische, psychologische, biologische und epistemologische Perspektiven Frankfurt 1985


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