Hi Marsha, again, Rather than think of a word, concept or static pattern as a fixed, > dictionary definition, or "the one best", I see a word, concept or static > pattern as the accumulation of all usage (value)? Can you see this in the > spirit as it is presented, rather than some absolute, amoral, cultural > relativism, nihilism or an example of being an anti-intellectual? >
Yes, I said previously that as long as you (at least try to) explain the way you are using words you need not stick to dictionary definitions. But you can't just say, for example "Well that's not how I use a word so you've got it wrong" and leave it at that. Well you can but it kind of kills the conversation. I'm not sure how this relates to cultural relativism and nihilism exactly? I guess it relates to an assumption that no set of words are better than any others? While the pattern loses authority, it gains in creativity. This view lends > itself to a flexibility in application and function that is more in tuned > with the dynamic experience of the present. Is this all that can be said? > No, it represents merely what has come off the top of my head. It's that > dynamic present that will, for some, open to the creative new. > Well I think that to enable communication and intellectual progression there needs to be a balance between sticking rigidly to dictionary meanings and persistently novel usage, between static latching and Dynamic innovation, between platitude and jabberwocky. Paul 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/md/archives.html
