Showing posts with label solipsism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solipsism. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Time to Start Talking About QA...

QA,  or "quality assurance," has been coming up a lot in my conversations, job-seeking - and naturally, thoughts - lately.  Poor QA! No one wants to do it: companies, as a whole, don't always invest much in it and individuals themselves don't necessarily seek it out as a career path -- at least, that's what it feels like.

At the end of the day, QA just ain't that glamorous.

It can be somewhat philosophical, though, and seems to me worthy of inquiry (yes - inquiry into a type of inquiry). QA can be seen as an excellent example of a posteriori knowledge -- and, by virtue of that, reinforce arguments against a priori knowledge, and can even be used in the case against solipsism.

I'll delve into what it all means in the next couple of posts, so stay tuned.