Re: Oh, it looks like Daniel....

Jim,

Let's try an experiment in capriciousness. From now on, I will respond to
Daniel only with song lyrics.

Not necessarily relevant ones, but just ones that pop into my head.

I suspect the resulting effect will be about the same for the conversation
(general incoherence), but it will be a lot more fun (appropriate since that's
all Daniel thinks I care about).

I'm ready.

As to you your own post, I, of course, have never said that "everything" is
"relatively equivalent" to anything. To do so would be simply stupid. I was,
as you know, talking about specific sorts of aesthetic judgments. I do not,
for instance, feel that preferring certain ethical or political positions over
others is the equivalent of preferring chocolate over vanilla. But that's a
completely different argument.

On the other hand, I will admit this: I am not at all confident that I know
what the phrase "objective value" really means in such a discussion.

But I don't think we're going to adequately define it here.

All the best,

--John

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Received on Tue Dec 23 10:24:14 2003