[MD] If you find dichotomies immoral

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:

> OK having read the article, Platt
> 
> One liners, even witty ones, don't make arguments, but it is entertaining.
> Of course now having read it I can see that yours is a dishonest
> unbalanced reading of an otherwise decent article.

Yes, of course. You are paranoid. 
 
> His concluding para opens with the line.
> "Of course, to defend simplifications always and everywhere is not
> only anti-intellectual, but dangerous."

As usual in your distortions you didn't add what he wrote to qualify that
observation. "We should distrust them, but not by rote. Complexity for its
own sake is no virtue." He adds that we have gone too far in the direction
of complicating what is essentially simple. 

> Have you seen the stuff David M and I have linked to before on the
> difference between "simplification" and "simplistication" - after
> Rayner ?

No. Must have missed it. What was the point? 


-------------------------------------------------
This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/