Hi DMB, creatively playful as ever All I'm saying is that since it is a slogan, it would be missing the point to debate it.
Anyway you miss (avoid) the explicit point again - I was disagreeing with Platt's explicit point .. that "communication is not possible at all without defintions" .... Not at all. Discuss. Ian On 5/2/07, david buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian quoted Ian: > 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. > > dmb says: > Oh, I see. You're not knocking definitions, you're just saying definition is > deadly dangerous death. Dude, seriously, this is the sort of drivel that > PROVES how desperately you need definitions. If you had any respect for them > you would not be contradicting yourself so conspicuously. If there is a > valid point buried down in there somewhere, you've not found the right words > for it. And what purpose is served by denigrating your own assertion by > saying its a slogan and not a thesis? That distinction depends on the > definitions of those words, or course, but that's not what bothers me. The > problem is that this distinction does not qualify the assertion itself but > rather your level of commitment to it. I don't see how that is relevant to > the substance of the matter. Are we not debating the validity of your slogan > rather than how strongly you feel about it or how vigorously you'd defend > it? > > My slogan shall henceforth be, "Drivel is death". But don't confuse that > with my thesis. Also, my tag line will be "you deserve a break today", my > punchline will be, "because it was the chicken's day off" and my pick up > line will be, "what's a gal like you doing in a place like this besides > talking to a creep like me?". > > _________________________________________________________________ > The average US Credit Score is 675. The cost to see yours: $0 by Experian. > http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=660600&bcd=EMAILFOOTERAVERAGE > > 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/ > 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/
