[Martin Taylor 960105 15:20]
Shannon Williams (apparently Fri, 5 Jan 1996 11:36:40 -1000)
Your definition of error causes the catch-22. I do not have your
definition.
Then it would be only fair to let the rest of us in on your definition.
But I would have thought it more reasonable to have done so at the outset,
if you intended to use a critical word in a way radically different from
the way it has hitherto been always used in this group (and in general
parlance, I am coming to think).
There's enough of a problem in coming to grips with the technical issues
of hierarchic control, without having to guess what language is being
used by the different parties to the discussion. If, as it seems, you
are trying to raise a serious technical issue, how about phrasing it in
a way that allows the rest of us to comment effectively, rather than simply
reiterating that the way we have always used a word is different from
the way you want to use it?
My view of PCT is evolving. If in the end, my view no longer resembles
all of yours, then I will have to call my view something else. Or maybe we
will all call our new view something else.
Fine. In the long run, that's what we all want (or so I assume). But let it
be by reference to Nature rather than to the vagaries of language usage.
There are lots of unresolved issues in PCT, as Bill P frequently reminds us.
May I take it that the volleyball season is in a pause?
Martin