On 7/13/2011 3:49 PM, Ken Whistler wrote:
> As Asmus was at pains to point out, the character
> encoders are essentially engaged in an operational discovery process
> regarding
> "what characters there are". That in turn leads to a definition by
> enumeration: What
> characters are consists of the list of what characters there are.
Speaking as a biologist, that's a common way that biologists approach
"life". Trying to define it is essentialist, and essentialism has been
rejected by most modern biologists.
-- -- Curtis Clark Cal Poly PomonaReceived on Wed Jul 13 2011 - 23:06:56 CDT
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