[MD] Is the MOQ static, or a static pattern?

craigerb at comcast.net craigerb at comcast.net
Thu May 17 10:59:23 PDT 2012


CORRECTION:

[Arlo}
> In fact, I'd argue that within a MOQ, 'right' would mean 'useful'. To the sailor trying to determine which map to
> use, he'd examine his context, and select the best map to get him where he needed to be, and he might say
> "that was the right map for that task", but 'right' is being defined and used by virtue of 'usefulness'.
> I can't imagine any context where he'd say, "well, the Cartesian map was right but not useful,
> the Polar map was not right but it allowed me to navigate to where I needed to be." 

But if 'right' is to mean 'useful', you also have to show that every case of being useful is a case of being right.
What if a sailor used a map to successfully navigate between two islands of the East Indies,
then later discovered it was a map of the West Indies?
Craig   

 




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