[MD] Heads or tails?

[ian glendinning]

Ha DMB, excellent.

As usual our difference is between extremes, having an aversion to
definitions is not the same as preferring obscurity - there's a lot in
between ...

I refer you to my earlier answer (to David M)

[QUOTE]
Hey David,

I'm not knocking definitions, they have pragmatc value for sure, as
well as their deadly reifying dangers. "Definition is death" is a
slogan, not my thesis.

I was challenging Platt's assertion, and I quote

"without [defintion] we couldn't understand one another at all"

Which is fortunately entirely untrue.
[UNQUOTE]

Ian



On 5/1/07, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ian glendinning said he is...
> "..still waiting ...For Platt to post his favourite dictionary definition of
> "defintion".
>
> dmb says:
> I don't get it. Seems to me that "definition is death" only if you think
> obscurity and confusion is life.