Sam here -
>> I use to say:
>> Either you are pregnant or you are not.
> You cannot be HALF PREGNANT.
>
>Of course you can!
>
>It's called "mid-term". And a little bit pregnant is can be
>can be considered " at the start of pregnancy".
This is a specious semantic argument, and I'm not buying it. While many
conditions are not steady state, having a continuum, (shades of gray as it
were) this is not one. Pregnancy is a steady state condition, you are or are
not. Being "mid-term", or anywhere in that condition is still in that
condition. Being "mid-term" is obviously being pregnant. If you were to
argue about transition effects " at the start of pregnancy", that razor thin
state where one transitions into pregnancy and which microsecond and
condition occurs in the flipping of the switch, I might be persuaded. HALF
PREGNANT meaning "mid-term" is cute, but inaccurate.
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From: owner-discuss-sudbury-model@sudval.org
[mailto:owner-discuss-sudbury-model@sudval.org]On Behalf Of Alexander /
Michiru Streater
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 8:55 AM
To: discuss-sudbury-model@sudval.org
Subject: DSM: On Hybrid schools . . . Our Trojon Horse?
Dear David Rovner,
> I use to say:
> Either you are pregnant or you are not.
> You cannot be HALF PREGNANT.
Of course you can!
It's called "mid-term". And a little bit pregnant is can be
can be considered " at the start of pregnancy".
> Still many people talk about "the process of
> democratization of a school" the same as they
> talk for years about "The Peace Process":
> One step forward, and two steps backward --
> or in the best case a stalemate.
I am unfamiliar with any case. Would you be willing to elaborate?
Alexander Streater
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