Hi Bernie,
On 9/7/07, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Could you clarify a bit about how it is a straw man?
Sure. First the background ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
"Good enough" will always be subjective. I can give any example of
searching through Google to be good enough for me, and someone will
come and say "Ah, but it can't find THIS!" "Ah," I would respond, "but
it can find THIS!" And so it goes, on and on.
What we're doing is putting down certain requirements on what "good
enough" is, and it will always be different, depending on who, context
and when. In that respect, we will *never* ever have one set of
requirements that we can all agree on being "good enough." Every time
we try, we're setting up a straw man in our favor in the argument.
"Let's pretend I wanted to find X" is not going to make you *not* find
it through your example. It's a straw man; you already know you'll
find it (or *not* find it, if that's your example).
Hope that makes it clearer?
Regards,
Alex
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