It wasn't a personal jab... you seem to think that people who follow the detail of the models have a fetish, a fetish I assume you don't share.
The fetish would not be one of caring about the details, but of dogmatically elevating one physical model (which was always a sort of approximation, a representation of a representation) to the status of a "perfection" by which everything else is to be judged.
After all, you did say:
"I love the big model too, but let's not make a fetish of it."
Right,
my statement indicates that we have not yet made a fetish of it, but that if we were to get too carried away we could. It is a warning more than it is an accusation.
Yes, the big model deserves special consideration. Yes, it deserves a privileged place in governing our interpretations, but if we were to treat it as "the standard" absurd ramifications follow. The argument is a cautionary
reductio.
On the other hand, you simply blurt out that I cannot follow details; much less friendly IMO.
The fact that you decided to apply a wider/stronger meaning to what I said (beyond the studying of the details of the Enterprise model) isn't my fault. But it is also not surprising given how you have applied ridged definitions (of your choosing) to what others have said.
LOL, you make it sound like I singled you out in a post when it's the other way around.
On the contrary, I have show how the rigidity of the suggestions of others has undesirable ramifications (i.e., the reductio).
Finally, I don't see how I have committed any sort of "party foul" with regard to widening or strengthening your meaning.
Frankly, I think that you perceived that I was making a different argument, and then jumped in. It's something we all do on occasion, but it is a source of confusion.
If your exaggeration of the meanings of what people say was aimed at Dennis, you should have limited your remarks to him. But it seems that you see everything as sharper and more extreme than intended... which makes discussions difficult.
Here is the problem. If you were sincerely reading my comments,
in context, you would see that this is pretty much what I was doing (I say "pretty much" because there was another poster who chimed in on side opposition, and I am not the lead advocate here - I am flying as wing man for Darkwing Duck1 here - the point I am making is really an extension of his).
No, I don't take that personally. I haven't read the whole thread (but it sure looks like more of the same), so you are right and you give good advice.
OK, but if you do, I still hope you post pics of whatever model you're working on.
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