[MD] Heads or tails?

[ian glendinning]

And Platt, you didn't need to look up a defintion of "sugar" to know
the relevant meaning (the difference in meaning relative to arsenic).

If you did you'd find "sugar" was a very ambiguous, context dependent
term, none of whose definitions would have any bearing on whether or
not you chose to take the arsenic.

Ian

On 4/30/07, pholden at davtv.com <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
> 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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