Re: Inconsistency, etc.

[Tim Gwinn <***>]

Hi JohnM,

Well said. It is indeed not easy to find a balance between maintaining the
list focus, and also keeping it amenable to an organic flow of ideas and
concepts. I do believe happy mediums exist (subjective as that determination
may be). I did come across rather authoritarian - it was not entirely
unintentional. I would make the general point that the list is not primarily
to persuade or dissuade anyone from a given paradigm or competing paradigms;
rather, the list focus tacitly presumes that listmembers are here to
primarily discuss concepts within the Rosennean paradigm.

Regards,
Tim

> Tim,
> Although I agree with your curbing of overt digression into the
> non-Rosennian theories, yet your abrupt par:
>
> > Those two are indeed concepts of complexity entirely different
> >from, and
> inequivalent to, the concept of Rosennean complexity. >This
> discussion list
> is about Rosennean complexity.<
>
> seems to me too topically authoritarian (to put it mildly) - that is, sort
> of a bible-study: the holy text without any comparison to the competing
> opinions of others, who - allegedly - you want to enlighten into accepting
> RR's views. In scientific discours it is a matter of natural course to
> inform about the entire field arguing for the topic in favor. It also
> includes the negatively acceptable points to show that they are correct.
> Your role as list-owner is not easy to curb the digressions yet
> maintain an
> intelligent (scientific) course.