Does anyone remember from library school, or otherwise know, a term for the following phenomenon?
You want to know something but don't know where to look for it, and the act of asking someone else helps you think of what to do next, independent of the quality of any response.
It seems like the kind of thing that would be written about in Reference Quarterly and the like on the subject of information-seeking behavior. But I can't even think of a term to use to look it up.
I'd say this is related to two phenomena: the hypothesis of Morphic Resonance (http://skepdic.com/morphicres.html) and therapy, or 'talking it over'. ...
The Buzan Centres website is at http://www.mind-map.com/ - there is some stuff about mind mapping there,
Mary Wood
Management Information Centre
Institute of ...
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Does this fill the bill? (Borrowed from an on-line dictionary)
Main Entry: ser·en·dip·i·ty
Pronunciation: -'di-p&-tE
Function: noun
Etymology: from its possession by the ...
On the subject of serendipity, it's interesting to note that the etymology gives no indication of what the word means. ...
Simon Collery
07/06/01 16:08
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