...and then if we go "subverbal", and inquire how long the *IDEA* might
have been lurking around the dark underbelly of professional discussions
before anyone thought to *NAME* it... well, that way madness lies. We
could chase it back to Plato. But it gets all flabby and useless.
To tell the truth, I *like* it for its concrete suggestion of a little
scale model of something chugging away in my mind. If it ever loses that
concreteness -- if it ever suffers death by abstraction or (what's even
worse) by formal definition -- we'll have to go find another term.
It's well to remember that in these domains *nothing* has a "literal"
meaning.
-- Regards Jim Michmerhuizen jamzen@world.std.com web residence at http://world.std.com/~jamzen/ --------------------------------------------------- --------------------- . . . . . There are more different kinds of people in the world . . . . . . . ^ . . than there are people... . . . . .Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>