James Farrar wrote:
On 11/06/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:08:39 +0100, "James Farrar" wrote:
In the end, we are all both deletionists and inclusionists.
Only if you're redefining those two terms away from how they're commonly used.
Not really, no. I think it's a false dichotomy. The continuum has extremes, but most people lie away from the extremes.
Right, but the terms describe the extremes. Representing those in the middle as belonging to both extremes is absurd.
That's an extreme interpretation. While I am primarily inclusionist by temperament, that doesn't mean that there is absolutely nothing that I would not delete. I tend to regard the statement as tautological.
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