SUO: Re: SUO Postings

[Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@att.net>]

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[reposting after 1.5 hours]

Mike,

If you have a specific question about the relevance
of one of my postings to the SUO Scope and Purpose,
or a request for clarification about any issue
that I have written on, please formulate it
in a way that I can do something positive
about it.

Thanks In Prospect,

Jon Awbrey

P.S.  In my perception, a large part of the recent volume
has consisted of John Sowa's cross-postings from the CG List,
some of whose pertinence to SUO work seems a bit remote to me,
but I never would, and never have so far, tried to second guess
another hard-working participant's judgment about such questions
without trying to give an explicit, focused, and specific reason.
If you have a question that you would be able to rephrase in those
terms, please be considerate enough to share it, and I will do my
best to address it.  ~~ JA

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Mike Pool wrote:
> 
> Jon,
> 
> Didn't you recently promise to try to limit the number of your postings
> and to keep them focused?  I won't comment on the latter pledge, but I
> count 27 postings from you on the three days Oct. 13-15.  The result is
> an overwhelming amount of traffic on the list, and I, for one, would be
> most appreciative if you would concatenate a number of your messages
> into one or two daily postings.  The end result would likely be that
> people would pay more attention to the postings that you do make.
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Mike Pool
> 
> At 08:30 AM 10/16/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> 
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> >sounds like a good last word on that,
> >probably time to look for a more
> >productive line of inquiry.
> >
> >jon
> >
> >John F. Sowa wrote:
> > >
> > > Jon,
> > >
> > > That is another important distinction:
> > >
> > >  > I was speaking about the distinction between physics
> > >  > and philology, figments that we fit to reality and
> > >  > figments that we fit into fits, in the lay sense
> > >  > of the term.
> > >
> > > Physics is the subject that studies and categorizes
> > > what exists in the physical world.  It is essential
> > > to building up the set of categories that we need
> > > to represent the things that exist in the world
> > >
> > > Philology studies words and how they came to aquire
> > > the features and relationships they have.  It is
> > > essential to building up the set of categories
> > > that we need to represent the way people talk
> > > about the world and their ways of viewing it.
> > >
> > > John
> >
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