On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm curious to see if Dr. D. will rehash his: > >> It's just the standard and pointless academic >> game of arguing about the meanings of words ("You're using the word >> '[...]' incorrectly; what '[...]' REALLY means (as some >> authority figure tells us) is that...") I'm all in favor of >> definitions, but they are for clarifying one's thought, not as some >> sort of appeal to authority. (After all, authorities are often wrong.)
I'm glad that you agree with what I said above, Tom. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
