[MD] Changes in 2011

[Horse]

Hi Ian

Happy New Year to you too - and to all the rest of you.

I'm not making the term Reification taboo any more than I have made the 
terms SOM or Intellect or Intellectual or similar terms taboo. They're 
just words.
What I am doing though is killing the whole SOM as Intellect debate and 
any avenues that lead towards it. Marsha's Reification is, from my point 
of view, just another way of expressing that debate.

Something else that I would like to see emerge in 2011 is a debate about 
Politics and the MoQ. This is something that really hasn't occurred here 
yet - I think the reasons are obvious - but maybe I will be able to 
facilitate this during the coming year.
In case anyone is thinking of jumping in about here, could I please ask 
you to hold on for a while (that's a polite request) as I would like to 
make sure that the general level of debate is back to it's usual caustic 
levels first!

One thing that I have been putting a lot of thought into recently is how 
to balance the right to speak freely with the right to be heard.
It's a tricky one - how do you balance the interests of those that don't 
scream and shout the loudest with those that do?
Who upholds the rights of those who wish to have moderate and reasonable 
debate?

Hmmm!

Horse



On 03/01/2011 09:34, Ian Glendinning wrote:
> Hi Horse,
>
> Glad to see MD is not a democracy, but as I've consistently said any
> good democracy has good regulation too. You have my support.
>
> One observation on the edict itself. The term reification cannot
> itself be made taboo (I hope, it has valid uses in our discussion - eg
> misplaced concreteness of named objects), but in this context, as a
> rhetorical cover for SOLAQI etc ... then the point is clear.
>
> Happy new year BTW,
> Ian

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