[MD] Heads or tails?

[david buchanan]

Ian quoted Ian:
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.

dmb says:
Oh, I see. You're not knocking definitions, you're just saying definition is 
deadly dangerous death. Dude, seriously, this is the sort of drivel that 
PROVES how desperately you need definitions. If you had any respect for them 
you would not be contradicting yourself so conspicuously. If there is a 
valid point buried down in there somewhere, you've not found the right words 
for it. And what purpose is served by denigrating your own assertion by 
saying its a slogan and not a thesis? That distinction depends on the 
definitions of those words, or course, but that's not what bothers me. The 
problem is that this distinction does not qualify the assertion itself but 
rather your level of commitment to it. I don't see how that is relevant to 
the substance of the matter. Are we not debating the validity of your slogan 
rather than how strongly you feel about it or how vigorously you'd defend 
it?

My slogan shall henceforth be, "Drivel is death". But don't confuse that 
with my thesis. Also, my tag line will be "you deserve a break today", my 
punchline will be, "because it was the chicken's day off" and my pick up 
line will be, "what's a gal like you doing in a place like this besides 
talking to a creep like me?".

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