Talk:Rachel Laudan

Mere coincidence?

   The intersections of topics of her published works and those of the geophysicist and epistemologist Larry Laudan suggests the probability that

1. her credentials extend far beyond cooking, into geophysics, and
2. the relationship between them is not remote, but rates as one reflecting close, and (generationally) recent, ties via marriage, adoption, and/or consanguinity.

NOR, but RSed bios may confirm at least intersections of their environments, and perhaps offer direct confirmation of interaction, or even of notability-related specific interactions. (IMO, RS'ed mention of mere coincidence would make debate abt. relevance worthy, and any RS acknowledging professional collaboration could suffice to ensure enc'dicity of otherwise appropriate mention).
--JerzyA (talk) 06:32, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

   E.g., or for that matter, one inspiring the other's interest, or just "feeling like The New York City Police Department has come under scrutiny for its use of the Terry stop. Supporters say that it reduces crime, but civil rights advocates say it is racial profiling. J better sounding board", by silently eliciting more thot bcz of visibly more engaged listening (even if there's no evidence of one conveying relevant new informative to the other based on professional-level knowledge: I enjoy (at the least) thinking out loud about science/math/tech to my love, and they to me about staging and musical esthetics, each enabled in thinking by the "sounding board" of the other's even limited grasp of our respective fields -- but in neither case is it as effective or sustainable as the same kind of (even passive, I think) listening from more of a professional peer. (... Does WP have an article on ... oh, say, sounding board (metaphor), thinking out loud, or one-sided discussion (heuristic)?
--JerzyA (talk) 08:06, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

   In a further effort at adequate clarity, let me add that i anticipate of a time when all notable scholars and authors have WP bios and descriptions, even for mere stubs on their jointly authored books and mere bare lists of books and significant articles that one has collaborated on with another one. And the work whose performance is practical today will help significantly to build the collaboration-describing semantic net frameworks that will support elaboration of that implicit network of authors and works.
   I know I won't be around to pop corks in celebration of it, nor have I even the slightest how many contemporary colleagues might last that long, but i'd be willing to bet any amount of post-Trump planetary currency on that prospect.
--JerzyA (talk) 06:50 & 07:26, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

   I dunno how far from coherency I left the above, in my project of letting go and accepting graceful degradation and graceful degradation (gerontological new rule). We'll all find out, "when waiting is filled".
--JerzyA (talk) 14:32, 22 June 2019 (UTC)