Black and white arguments? (Was: Author, author)

["Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA>]

Goober Writer wondered: <<Why is this list so addicted to black or white
contrasting arguments?>>

I don't think it's restricted to this list alone. A few words from the
master:

"The enemy of resolution, here as nearly always, is that old devil
Dichotomy. We take a subtle and interesting issue, with a real resolution
embracing aspects of all basic positions, and we divide ourselves into two
holy armies, each with a brightly colored cardboard mythology as a flag of
struggle."--Stephen Jay Gould, Shields of expectation--and actuality.

--Geoff Hart, geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
(try ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca if you get no response)
Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada
580 boul. St-Jean
Pointe-Claire, Que., H9R 3J9 Canada 

"Wisdom is one of the few things that look bigger the further away it
is."--Terry Pratchett

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