re: SHORT MEMORY
"The soul of meaning is not denotation. If you had any subtlety or depth to your thinking, you would know that. Meaning is not definitional."
I wasn't writing poetry. Law is definitional.
"The soul of meaning"- that's funny stuff.
"While it may be technically true that clinton was at war with Iraq, we all know that what took place March a year ago was fundamentally different in meaning, despite definitional trivialities."
Right, the Coalition invading Iraq wasn't a war. It was a square dance.