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The `communicative a priori' does not require us vs them; it only requires one be *unaware* that a subject of discourse in the process of identification is already named. Choice of order of method (choose the means to choose the means). People are not of necessity or even proclivity, arbitrary; they are often uninformed or engaged in creating a community where membership is known by secret ring decoders. Then they become dogmatic. When two different groups that control the same resources have different ring decoders, a paralysis of decision ensues. Which is why the lights in California may be out for awhile. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Borden [mailto:jborden@m...] But as in documents designed purely for human consumption, people have a need to continuously invent new terms for otherwise common things. It is both a way for members of a group to speak precisely about common knowledge and as a barrier to entry for outsiders (for example medical terminology :-)
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