Jamie,
Thanks for a complete and clear statement of your position. Expressed in this way, it is a reasonable position, and had I been able to infer this from the accumulation of your various statements during the course of the discussion, I would not have been so insistent for you to spell it out in full.
Discussions like this tend to begin with very little expression of each participant’s aesthetic or philosophical assumptions (if they are not already known), and that lack thereof can cause needles misunderstandings. I’m aware, though, that for participants to formally express their positions at the start of each discussion would be impractical.
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