From: ml (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Sep 03 2004 - 04:22:51 BST
Fair enough...thanks--mel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wim Nusselder" <wim.nusselder@antenna.nl>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: MD Re: Non-empiricist definition of DQ
> Dear Mel,
>
> Well, it definitely felt valuable to me what Chris did. And I agree that I
> am too lazy to care about the difference between a definition and a
> functional description. (-:
> To the extent that DQ is described as 'possibilities', one could add
> 'desirable possibilities', otherwise it wouldn't be 'Quality', would it?
> This does define (i.e. limits) DQ to some extent, in that it excludes
what's
> thinkable but would not fit in with already existing patterns of value
> ('impossibilities' and 'undesirable possibilities').
> There seems to be a gliding scale between (rough) description and
(rigorous)
> definition.
>
> With friendly greetings,
>
> Wim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ml" <mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com>
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 4:56 PM
> Subject: Re: MD Re: Non-empiricist definition of DQ
>
>
> Hello Wim,
>
> It seems that what Chris has done is not
> so much 'define' DQ as something more
> valuable, which is to describe a place to
> find DQ and provide a facet of functional
> description. (We often lazily accept the
> functional description as a definition, but
> it is not the case, definition is denotative
> at the very least and rigorously structural
> at best.) Description is practical, rule of
> thumb, and contextual.
>
> To reduce DQ to a 'caged definition' is a
> mistake as it reduces the manifesting
> scope of what is and should be a
> non-bounded notion or principle.
>
> Does that make sense as I've described
> it? Is there a better way to put it?
>
> thanks--mel
>
>
>
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