Re: Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

On 14 April 2013 11:44, Charles Matthews
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Indeed. As is characteristic of false dichotomies.
> I was once asked by a prominent journalist where I stood on this. I
> replied that it was a boring question. And that once I had defined
> myself as deletionist on science topics, where we don't want cruft and
> pseudo, and inclusionist on humanities topics, where we really cannot
> always know what the academics will turn to next.


When people from TV come asking for a (quote) "passionate deletionist" -

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01448.html

- we're well past the time of being able to talk sensibly in such polar terms.


- d.

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