[MD] Heads or tails?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:

> 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.

I for one am glad to know the difference in meaning between "sugar" and "arsenic."

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