Owen Densmore wrote:
I for one would expect more formalism in this discussion. I believe most of your discussion could be placed in a set-theoretic framework and I would prefer that.
Please god no! <grin>
Seriously... as one of the guilty parties in the aforementioned discussion, I am happy either way.... on or off list. This could be because I've mostly lost my own momentum on this one, and it could be because I am very facile with skipping FRIAM discussions I don't find engaging.
In any case, I think Owen's assessment is good... Robert's comment did appear to be very high-information content (layers of literality, irony, sarcasm, humor, etc.) and as Owen suggested, "a vote", not a censure.
I appreciate Nick's contributions to FRIAM and hope that he is not discouraged by the lack of consensus interest in some of his topics and modes of discussion.
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