Quoting ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Platt said > > > ... but without [definition] > > we couldn't understand one another at all. > > That is patently untrue. We value and understand many things by shared > aesthetic experience. Definition is something done with hindsight - > for good pragmatic simplification reasons, in context etc ... but it > is not at all "necessary" for understanding. > > It is "always" a compromise, a dumbing down, a devaluing, and is far > from necessary.
I for one am glad to know the difference in meaning between "sugar" and "arsenic." ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
