On 7/13/2011 3:49 PM, Ken Whistler wrote:
As Asmus was at pains to point out, the character
encoders are essentially engaged in an operational discovery process
regarding
"what characters there are". That in turn leads to a definition by
enumeration: What
characters are consists of the list of what characters there are.
Speaking as a biologist, that's a common way that biologists approach
"life". Trying to define it is essentialist, and essentialism has been
rejected by most modern biologists.
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Curtis Clark
Cal Poly Pomona
