Ha DMB, excellent. As usual our difference is between extremes, having an aversion to definitions is not the same as preferring obscurity - there's a lot in between ...
I refer you to my earlier answer (to David M) [QUOTE] Hey David, I'm not knocking definitions, they have pragmatc value for sure, as well as their deadly reifying dangers. "Definition is death" is a slogan, not my thesis. I was challenging Platt's assertion, and I quote "without [defintion] we couldn't understand one another at all" Which is fortunately entirely untrue. [UNQUOTE] Ian On 5/1/07, david buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian glendinning said he is... > "..still waiting ...For Platt to post his favourite dictionary definition of > "defintion". > > dmb says: > I don't get it. Seems to me that "definition is death" only if you think > obscurity and confusion is life. 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/
