[MD] Heads or tails?

[Ron Kulp]

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.


[Ron]
Ian, I beg to differ on this simply because all experience could be
viewed as a definition
of some sort. The only way we communicate is from a shared perception of
experience on some
Level or another which is defined by our senses "shared aestetic
experience" is a relative 
context for the base of a shared Understanding. In the valley of the
blind, the one eyed are king