[MD] Heads or tails?

[ian glendinning]

Platt said

> ... but without [definition]
> we couldn't understand one another at all.

That is patently untrue. We value and understand many things by shared
aesthetic experience. Definition is something done with hindsight -
for good pragmatic simplification reasons, in context etc ... but it
is not at all "necessary" for understanding.

It is "always" a compromise, a dumbing down, a devaluing, and is far
from necessary.

Ian