Re: Getting your work critiqued (but by whom?)

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Patricia C. Wrede
> > > So that it is not possible, in your view, to have a
> > > lethal conflict between two good sides?

James A. Donald:
> > Exactly so.

Patricia C. Wrede
> > > Oh, and are you defining "lethal conflict" here as war
> > > only, or as including single combat?

James A. Donald:
> > One can easily imagine a dangerous duel between two good 
> > people, but not a duel to the death.

Patricia C. Wrede
> That answers the question by implication, I suppose, but I
> prefer a more straightforward response, as above.

I have little patience with definitions, which tend to
obstruct, rather than facilitate, discussion about the world. 
All the best definitions are frankly circular, for example
Euclid's wonderfully question begging definition of a point,. 
Euclid's definition works only because we know what a point is
by example, usage, and context. 

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