uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > ... it's a lot of work to do that inferring and the subsequent error > correction in straw-steel-etc effigification
Damn, that is a great well packed phrase with a word *I* might have conjured in the absence of any better one! I knew right away (I think) what you meant by "effigification" but when I went looking for a precedent for it, I couldn't find any. Could this be a true neologism? With a little luck it might find it's way into the OED in an edition or two. Like we can "verbize any noun", can we "nounificate any verb"? In this case, however it seems we are verbifying a nounificated verb? (effigy->effigify->effigification) But (mildly?)_ obscured (to me) is whether you consider the straw<->steel man continuum to in fact be *effigies*? My connotation of "effigy" includes the business implied by "to burn in effigy" which in fact *does* apply well to the more flammable end of the spectrum (i.e. straw), but I don't know if you intend that aspect. Straw-Steel men *are* models, and perhaps caricatures in some sense. I'm not deliberately splitting hairs to undermine your argument, but rather to understand more better what all might be implied by your use of the straw-steel idiom. I'm late to the party, having only recently (months) let go of my archaic mapping which was roughly opposite yours... in that "straw-good because it is designed to be discardable or an armature to plaster over into a more elaborate model" vs "steel-bad because it likely represents premature binding". - Steve - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
