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| Richard 2006-04-27, 9:55 pm |
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docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
> Are you saying that the
> value of stick-as-crutch exists in the stick before anyone knows it can be
> used as such?
Not at all. I have been saying all along that using a stick as a
crutch, or to beat people with, or to prop up the clothes line does not
make the stick more valuable. It is just a stick and if it gets thrown
on the fire you can go and get another. Now, when you _can't_ get
another then that would make it be more valuable.
> Not blank, Mr Plinston, printed. Reading a book makes the configurations
> of white and not-white spaces into something interpreted;
It actually changes patterns in the brain and this may make the _brain_
more valuable to the reader. The book, once read, may become less
valuable to the reader because it loses some of the ability to make
further improvements to the brain.
> if the book
> cannot be read - for whatever reason, whether because of ignorance or
> degraded page-quality - then its value, by the definition given above, is
> less.
The value does not change. It is could not be read then its value (to
that person) as reading material was zero before it was opened and zero
after it was closed.
> I do not know what makes a difference to a book, Mr Plinston; the question
> is one of 'value', which is, I believe, a condition generated by human
> beings.
And each may generate a different value for the same object or a copy
thereof.
> Your words, Mr Plinston, and they appear to equate price and value.
Price and value may have no connection but where two items are for sale
in the same context (such as both being available on Amazon) then the
relative monetary value is an indicator of _someones_ idea of the
relative value.
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| In article <1146195311.092891.248390@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Richard <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> wrote:
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>docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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>Not at all. I have been saying all along that using a stick as a
>crutch, or to beat people with, or to prop up the clothes line does not
>make the stick more valuable.
Mr Plinston, you offer a Humpty Dumpty argument; I can see little need to
continue.
DD
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