On Jun 29, 10:24 am, (Richard Harrison)
wrote:
The IEEE dictionary won`t dispute Terman. If it does, it needs
correction.

The IEEE and Terman are both reputable sources and
it seems unlikely that they would have substantive
disagreements.

But it is always possible, for those with the desire,
to manufacture dispute by the careful selection of
sentence fragments.

The defense is to be very cautious about trusting
the veracity of quotes from sources with questionable
reputations and motives.

....Keith

On 29 Jun, 07:55, Keith Dysart wrote:
On Jun 29, 10:24 am, (Richard Harrison)
wrote:

The IEEE dictionary won`t dispute Terman. If it does, it needs
correction.

The IEEE and Terman are both reputable sources and
it seems unlikely that they would have substantive
disagreements.

But it is always possible, for those with the desire,
to manufacture dispute by the careful selection of
sentence fragments.

The defense is to be very cautious about trusting
the veracity of quotes from sources with questionable
reputations and motives.

...Keith

A man after my own heart!
This is where the difference in
"learning" and "undestanding" comes to the fore
Art Unwin KB9MZ....XG

Keith Dysart wrote:

...
The defense is to be very cautious about trusting
the veracity of quotes from sources with questionable
reputations and motives.

...Keith

I don't believe Terman would have minded being "questioned" at all. I
think he did the best which could have been done for his time, and given
what was available then. I believe he would have loved to set any
errors in accepted principals correct--I don't believe he ever stopped
looking. He just couldn't do everything, as especially not all at once!

However, the shallow minded who follow in his shadow, who set up a
religion around his work. Who canonize his book, who memorize equations
and formulas which only apply to narrow applications of very specific
physical arrangements ... they can do little better than defend what he
left, they certainly are unable to add to it, and probably lack the
where-will-all to even question it logically!

JS