Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA12038 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 12 May 2001 20:21:20 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.151] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Information Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 15:17:09 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F1625b6KZmcK8r6beUz00004c6d@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 May 2001 19:17:09.0275 (UTC) FILETIME=[23CD9EB0:01C0DB18] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: Information
>Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 14:33:48 -0400
>
>Hi Robin Faichney -
>
> >The "best" anything, unless
> >what's "better" is entirely explicit and agreed, is about valuation,
> >a matter of opinion. If you don't agree, let's hear your case.
>
>Look, I totally agree that _anything_ that _anyone_ has _ever_ said at
>_any_ time is _fiction_- and thus opinion is a great deal of it, and that
>the best thing that anyone could ever say would also be open to opinion,
>but the _best way to use a word_ ain't, and never was, a matter of
>_opinion_. It has always and shall ever more remain, a matter of
>consensus.
>
Is consensus anything more than collective opinion? The collective may be
comprised of experts in a field and their opinion(s) matter(s) more than
some dilletente with a non-standard word usage, but expert opinion is still
opinion, just better than amateur opinion.
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