Shapeshifting Evidence and Principles

thalassocrat at nym.hush.com · 29 May 2006, 01:05 · from 2006-May.txt.gz

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From: thalassocrat at nym.hush.com (thalassocrat at nym.hush.com)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 11:05:45 +1000
Subject: (urth) Shapeshifting Evidence and Principles
Message-ID: <20060529010546.423C433C23 at mailserver5.hushmail.com>

I wrote:

>I don't think that's the real dichotomy. Better: "Here's a nice 
>shiny jewel - let's shove it in the ring!" vs "But it doesn't fit, 

>
>and if you scratch it, it flakes. Let's find a real gem that 
>fits."

Well, that certainly sounds more aggressive than I intended. I 
really meant that everybody finds themselves on different sides of 
that division from time to time. What looks like ill-fitting tawdry 
costume paste to some may look like the Wossisname diamond to 
others, or even to the same person at a different time. Etc etc 
etc. 

I don't think anybody really denies the existence of empty jewel 
settings which we're supposed to fill in for ourselves.

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