Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]erwin wrote >>>> Could we not learn form each other and stop trying to carve up the vast field of photography in watertight compartments where trespassing is not allowed? <<< When I was doing philosophy at college, I came to realise after many fruitless tutorial arguments, that philosophy consists of precisely that: arguments. Wittgenstein came up with what to me were knockdown arguments against a certain kind of logical positivism, but they didn't see it like that! Just more grist to their mill. So after a while I realised that people don't really learn from each other, but can enjoy arguing about their different approaches to a subject. There's no resolution, just a refining of positions in conflict. Which is itself a sort of progress, at least fruitful for the opposing camps. It's like the filter thing - of course I'm not going to take my filters off my lenses, no matter what anyone says, even if I have three pairs of Ted's undies in my camera bag. It's just not my way. I respect his too. And I enjoy arguing for mine. _That's_ what I call consensus or compromise, not agreement. Agreement is anodyne and stagnant, argument is dynamic, entertaining and fertile. Evviva la LUG! Rob. By the way, Ted, don't think this lets you off the hook about the underpants, I'll be checking my postbox... :) Rob.