"...We should be writing tunes, And learning where to stand Instead we're spending all our time Naming the Band..."
I'll repeat my challenge: Start articulating policies on current hot button topics. Be sure to show your work so that we can see how you came to your conclusions. That way (a) we can have an answer to "what do you believe about X" and (b) we may be able to distill some general principles from the specific cases you work out.
At least, that's how I'm approaching it. Details when I have more than a couple such points.
As to semantics: No words in common usage are going to be suitable, because all of them have semantic baggage. I could be happily going along with my "civil discourse" party, and get slammed for wanting to revert to the "civil society." Thus the genius of the "Bull Moose" party. The what? Yeah, here's what we stand for.
This was part of Newton's genius when he abstracted space, time, position, motion and energy into symbols like X. That, however, is way off topic.
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branchandroot
Naming the band
Date: 20 April 2005 05:49 (UTC)"...We should be writing tunes,
And learning where to stand
Instead we're spending all our time
Naming the Band..."
I'll repeat my challenge: Start articulating policies on current hot button topics. Be sure to show your work so that we can see how you came to your conclusions. That way (a) we can have an answer to "what do you believe about X" and (b) we may be able to distill some general principles from the specific cases you work out.
At least, that's how I'm approaching it. Details when I have more than a couple such points.
As to semantics: No words in common usage are going to be suitable, because all of them have semantic baggage. I could be happily going along with my "civil discourse" party, and get slammed for wanting to revert to the "civil society." Thus the genius of the "Bull Moose" party. The what? Yeah, here's what we stand for.
This was part of Newton's genius when he abstracted space, time, position, motion and energy into symbols like X. That, however, is way off topic.