[Air-l] conceptual lexicon

[Ellis Godard]

Elijah wrote:
> Even our generic topic on the list, "internet research", 
> means more things 
> to people on the list than we have words to describe.

And there's the rub. I was going to respond, to this and/or to Jeremy's
other message, that an amorphous tentative sense of "collective identity"
doesn't appear to have great utility; that perhaps we ought to be fleshing
out ideas that are more clear, simple, and rigorous; and that we're not the
Association of Internet Layfolk.

So, instead, I'm curious to hear more about this amorphously collective
amorphous identity. :)

Jeremy wrote:
> Umm, I don't think we dodged it, it is just that it can't be  
> described to you given the framework that you require.  It exists,  
> you can see it all over....

What's the alternative framework, and on what criteria does one evaluate its
ideas (if other than simplicity, generality, validity, testability, and
originality, for example)?

Regards,
Ellis