Magnus:
"About the SOM issue, Struan might not be the
one to ask, he usually strikes the ostrich pose whenever SOM comes up. :)"
Naughty naughty !! I seem to remember synthesising a definition of SOM that most in
the squad
(myself not included) accepted.
Magnus:
"But how can language be the problem right now? You were just using language
to convey your feelings about the Lockerbee downing. As I wrote earlier
to Struan, I think the problem lies in what we mean by "observation"."
If the problem lies in, "what we mean by observation," then it is a problem of
language. You (as you
often do) want to forward a strict, discrete definition of it, at the expense of all
others. I think
(as I often do) that it is open to various interpretations, each one of which may be
right in a
particular context.
As I said before, your definition is perfectly reasonable but isn't the whole story.
Struan
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