[MD] Stuck on a Torn Slot

[david buchanan]

Mark said:
...  A concept can be seen as a static framework.  It is a useful tool to encourage discussion, but must remain dynamic.

dmb says:
No. Marsha makes this move too and it's one of the stupidest moves I've ever seen.
Does anyone really need to explain why it's a bad idea to say that STATIC concepts must remain DYNAMIC? 
This is not even a philosophical issue. It's just about an obscene abuse of the english language. Static means stable, which means it is not dynamic. Concepts need to be stable or they don't work as concepts. That's why ideas and concepts are called intellectual static patterns. They are stable and structured. This does not mean they are eternally fixed or permanently rigid, but stability is a good thing and stable is simply what the word means.

Ordinary communication depends on this stability of meaning. If every english speaker re-invented or reversed the definition of words whenever they felt like it, communication would be rendered impossible. Thinking would be impossible. To construe "static" as meaning "dynamic" is conspicuously, spectacularly wrong. It blurs the main line of the MOQ and it defies all our dictionaries. Are you members of the english-speaking community or not? 

It's ridiculous that anyone should have to make a correction as obvious as this one. How can a grown-up be so ridiculously confused about the distinction between static and dynamic? It's as simple as saying "hot" does not mean "cold" and "up" does not mean "down". Each term means what it means by NOT being the other. Static means not dynamic in the same way that cold means not hot. Up is the opposite of down in the same way that static is the opposite of ever-changing.For the same reason - a decent respect for common understandings - static patterns are NOT ever-changing. Dynamic is exactly what they are not. 

Sigh.

Sorry. Obviously, I'm all out of patience. You guys are just too much.