Posted by
Steve Smith on
Jul 02, 2009; 3:07pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-Direct-conversation-tp3137870p3195598.html
Owen Densmore wrote:
> I for one would expect more formalism in this discussion. I believe
> most of your discussion could be placed in a set-theoretic framework
> and I would prefer that.
Please god no! <grin>
Seriously... as one of the guilty parties in the aforementioned
discussion, I am happy either way.... on or off list. This could be
because I've mostly lost my own momentum on this one, and it could be
because I am very facile with skipping FRIAM discussions I don't find
engaging.
In any case, I think Owen's assessment is good... Robert's comment did
appear to be very high-information content (layers of literality, irony,
sarcasm, humor, etc.) and as Owen suggested, "a vote", not a censure.
I appreciate Nick's contributions to FRIAM and hope that he is not
discouraged by the lack of consensus interest in some of his topics and
modes of discussion.
- Steve
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