OK having read the article, Platt One liners, even witty ones, don't make arguments, but it is entertaining. Of course now having read it I can see that yours is a dishonest unbalanced reading of an otherwise decent article.
His concluding para opens with the line. "Of course, to defend simplifications always and everywhere is not only anti-intellectual, but dangerous." Have you seen the stuff David M and I have linked to before on the difference between "simplification" and "simplistication" - after Rayner ? Ian Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
