To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
I am a free American citizen. I get to label anything that I want to with any label that I want to. With a little luck, that will become the label that everyone uses, and earlier ones will be forgotten. While I admire this quintessentially american sprit--what a rugged independent cuss you are--it doesn't really help much in addressing perplexing questions of the Commons, such as mandatory universal public schooling. Like humpty dumpty, a word means whatever you want it to mean? That works great until you are engaged in cooperative, reciprocal communities. Then, suddenly, objectively sharable meanings arising from historically commmon context and usage become vitally important. It is not useful for science to mean whatever you like, however much that tickles your fancy.
264 posted on
09/12/2002 1:43:52 PM PDT by
donh
To: donh
Tell you what, donh, I have been up now for over 16 hours, and we seem to be basically repeating ourselves here. I have also been participating in the soon to be war threads, and am beat. Why don't you come up with some new arguments, or we can just agree to disagree on this. I'll be sure to check back tomorrow.
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