On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Miles Fidelman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, ok - but when a word has a well understood definition - doesn't an > alternate definition take us into Humpty Dumpty land? It can, if used generally without advertising it beforehand. When presented as it has been here, specifically to get people to think about the alternative, it's clearly food for thought: how does this notional definition affect your viewpoint? The one end is Humpty Dumpty land; the other end is blinders that prevent you from seeing change that is actually happening around you, or from seeing things that should be "obvious" but are obscured by too-fixed modes or habits of thought. Both ends are bad --- avoiding one is not license to visit the other. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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