Laws@STRIPE.SRI.COM (Ken Laws) (07/02/87)
Perhaps the discussion of philosophy/theory/perception would be more palatable -- or even concise and understandable -- if we refrained from quoting each other in the style of the old Phil-Sci list. Quotations are often necessary, of course, but the average reader can follow a discussion without each participant echoing his predecessors. Those few who are really interested in exact wordings can save the relevant back issues; I'll even send copies on request. On the whole, I think that this interchange has been conducted admirably. My hope in making this suggestion is that participants will spend less bandwidth attacking each other's semantics and more of it constructing and presenting their own coherent positions. (It's OK if we don't completely agree on terms such as "analog", as long as each contributor builds a consistent world view that includes his own Humpty-Dumpty variants.) -- Ken -------