Re: Guessing?
From: paul c <toledobysea_at_ac.ooyah>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 01:45:23 GMT
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> What? Like prophylactic?
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 01:45:23 GMT
Message-ID: <TUn%j.175049$Cj7.70432_at_pd7urf2no>
Bob Badour wrote:
> Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>
>> Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote: >> >> >>> paul c wrote: >>> >>> >>>> The more I muse about it, the more I imagine that whatever the word >>>> for non-anthro...phizing is, that should be the name of some as yet >>>> undiscovered 'design Principle'. >>> >>> An antonym of anthropomorphize is objectify. I am not too fond of >>> that either. >> >> Is there a safe word?
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> What? Like prophylactic?
Heh, could be, I have it on good authority that I'm here because diaphragms aren't safe and I found out myself that the pill isn't.
But now I'm thinking that suggesting a Principle from the outset of the insight is premature. Maybe there should be a gestation period during which it'd be called a Doctrine. I guess that would be the Doctrinaire Principle. Received on Thu May 29 2008 - 03:45:23 CEST