[Sigia-l] Re: Socratic dialog request

[Ed Housman]

Doug Howell

You're on the list, and I am just getting
started.  When I left Florida there were
89 messages, now there are well over 100,
including others wanting copies.

Several people have expressed interest
in the piece, encouraging me to press on.  I
have the initial 89 msgs in a full text
search engine, and am thus able to drill
through them to pick out those mentioning
any particular concept ... to compare them.

But being analytical, the first thing I did
was make a list of the cast of characters
by extracting all the FROM's and eliminating
duplicates.  I will add your name to this
list:
===============
Arno Reichenauer <arno_reichenauer at web.de> 
Boniface Lau <boniface_lau at compuserve.com> 
Booher, Craig <cbooher at kcc.com> 
Carol Butler <carolbutler at attbi.com> 
Christopher Fahey <askROM at graphpaper.com> 
David Heller <hippiefunk at hotmail.com> 
Derek R <derek at derekrogerson.com> 
Ed Housman <em_housman at yahoo.com>
Eric Reiss <elr at e-reiss.com> 
Eric Scheid <eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au>
George Olsen <george.olsen at pobox.com> 
Gunnar Langemark <gunnar at langemark.com> 
James Robertson <jamesr at steptwo.com.au> 
John Fullerton <jfullert at lib-gw.tamu.edu>
Jon Hanna <jon at spin.ie> 
Jonathan Broad <jonathan at relativepath.org> 
Kinney, Matt <Matt.Kinney at bankofamerica.com> 
Listera <listera at rcn.com> 
Luther, Ron <Ron.Luther at hp.com> 
Michael Albers <malbers at memphis.edu> 
Peter VanDijck <pvandijck at lds.com> 
Philip Hall <philipnhall at telus.net>
* Stefan Smagula <smag at aya.yale.edu>
Thomas Vander Wal <thomas at vanderwal.net> 
alfred <alfred at thunderstick.com> 
christina wodtke <cwodtke at eleganthack.com> 
paula.thornton <paula.thornton at prodigy.net> 
=========

Then, being a fanatic analyst, I began
scanning the text visually for interesting
words, phrases, and epigrams to a concept
list.  That, I hope,will give me some idea
of how to break all the comments down
down into 6 "questions" to be addressed
in the the socratic dialog, and possibly
to suggest the final point to be made.

I am posting this to the listserver, but
I will not trouble you all with progress
reports.

I will be working on this with
Stefan Smagula <smag at aya.yale.edu>
who has graciously offered to
help out, and possibly assign one
of his students to the project.

--Ed




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