Ron,
Good effort but I really don't think scanning the dictionary for alternate meanings is the way out of this pickle. Pirsig's usage of the word discrete is quite clear. He reemphasizes the meaning by stating. "They are discreet. They have very little to do with one another." He even provides an example, "An excellent analogy to the independence of the levels, Phaedrus thought, is the relation of hardware to software in a computer." The way out is to acknowledge that we create levels on the fly and apply them to our immediate context. There is no magic to the four MoQ levels, they are JUST one way of seeing things. There are lots more. We use these "levels on the fly" all the time as we zoom in, zoom out and refocus. You seem to be making some connection between taxonomy and topology. I don't get it. Krimel ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron: Please tell me the difference between what I posted and what you posted. What I posted is supported by cultural consensus of terms, what you posted is supported by, well, your own interpretations. yet we say the same thing, only I have connected the meaning we agree upon with the term "discrete" Think I'm reaching? At least I reach and attain on a consensus level. I think the Turner letter supports this assumption. "An excellent analogy to the independence of the levels, Phaedrus thought, is the relation of hardware to software in a computer." Notice the description of independent parts of an interdependent whole system. 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/
