Re: virus: maxims and ground rules

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Sun, 9 May 1999 20:50:49 -0700 (PDT)

On Sun, 9 May 1999, KMO wrote:

> [...] we don't have to use maxims to create the proposed
> framework, so I'm certainly not wedded to idea that our initial common ground
> has to be stated as a set of maxims

Then why not call them "slogans" or "talking points" or "strange attractors" or some other term more specific to the task, rather than simply consistant with the rhetoric.

-Prof. Tim