Marsha said to dmb:
Pitting 'clarity and precision' against 'sloppiness and gibberish' is setting
up a false dichotomy. They are all somewhat subjective terms and dependent on
context and perspective, with a full range of presentations between such poles.
Better to try to demonstrate by example, with encouragement. Besides there
are others, those that support you and whose postings are far from perfect,
that you seem to gladly accept their approval without criticism. Your
selectivity in criticizing is quite suspicious.
dmb says:
Subjective and suspicious?
Hardly.
Arlo and I are both complaining about a very specific and concrete example of
sloppy gibberish.
Like I said, if Ian didn't mean to equate context two with narrow SOMist
thinking, then he is a very bad writer because that's what his sentence means.
Arlo and I both quoted this specific example, among others, wherein Ian
expressed his concern for "allowing a narrow SOMist (Context 2) view of
intellect to dominate."
Do you have anything relevant to say about the substance of the matter?
Do you have anything intelligent to say about the actual topic? Any ideas at
all?
Or would you prefer to prove my point?
Like I said, "rather than clarify or qualify or explain, folks like Ian and
Marsha just want to protect their egos. They just issue denials and dismissals
rather than deal with the substance of the matter".
The distinction between precision and clarity is a false dichotomy? That is
ridiculous nonsense. Let's hope your doctor doesn't believe anything so absurd.
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