>when was last time you actually used a dictionary to find a words meaning?
>have you tried looking up meaning in the dictionary? thats usually a good
>source for word definitions, doncha think?
You mean I've been wasting my time reading Bateson, Bohm, Fodor and
Peirce when the answer was in Webster's all along? But seriously, the
dictionary is good for finding common definitions, but not so good
for discovering underlying mechanisms or for expanding understanding.
David