Arlo, Michael On the subject of social negotiation of meaning ... I blogged a thought on some quotes from Thoreau kinda on this subject. http://www.psybertron.org/?p=2069
PS Platt, intrigued as to where you got your choice of "its a jungle out there" in your quip earlier. I need to know how many levels of irony there were in your quip before I decide how many to use in response - the verbal arms race is getting too complex for my small brain. Ian On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Michael Poloukhine <[email protected]> wrote: >> For example, did you choose MW as your authority after you read it and >> determined it was in agreement with your views? Did I do the same? > MP: In point of fact, *I* didn't choose MW, the wikipedia referenced footnote > used it to explain why they used "deity" even where MW did not. That MW used > the same definition I had been using from several other sources was just a > bonus. :-) > > Ultimately, there needs to be an authority that decrees a definition to be > "accepted" (at least for the time being.) That authority *might* be achieved > through an authority of consensus, but more often consensus cannot be > reached. At which point an figurative authority (a person or a pre-selected > group, with its own final personal authority) needs to step in and settle the > discourse for this moment. The point of definitions is to have accepted > meaning > that behaves in a constant manner to allow for dialog to use that "brick" to > build > with. > > A place like wikipedia can't figure out if its dialog or authority. That's > its real > problem. One cannot be both. > MP > ---- > "Don't believe everything you think." > > 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/ > 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/
