Thus spake Miles Parker circa 09-09-15 02:00 PM:
> 
> Holy crap, I think you guys have rediscovered New Criticism. <ducking/>
> :D Speaking quite seriously now, I think that we really are at a time
> when literary theory should become a core part of the hard sciences
> curriculum. Now that would be an interesting turn around...

Yeah, it would be funny if people began to take seriously the concept of
a "well-rounded education" again.  Of course, it would be no skin off my
nose since I wouldn't be amongst those forced to conjugate Latin verbs.

> BTW, Glen, I don't know how I missed it before but I'm just taking a
> look at your page and recent work. Right on! I think you have identified
> the core issue as lying in the explicit -- and more damagingly, the
> methodological implicit -- bias toward the continuum and it sounds like
> you're poking the established view at exactly the weak point.

Hm.  Thanks!  We were hoping the attack was a little less visible.
Thanks for making a bunch of noise and alerting the enemy to our
approach.  Whose side are you on, anyway?!?! [grin]

-- 
glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com


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