[MD] Heads or tails?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:

> A given "definition " of the moon is a static pattern - which is why
> "definition is death". The thing that kills science in particular, and
> knowledge in general. The thing that Platt uses to kill MoQ.Dicsuss.
> Very limited value, in a limited context..

Definition may have limited value in a limited context, but without it
we couldn't understand one another at all. Meaning depends on mutual
agreement about what words refer to. Sugar is not arsenic.


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