Paradigm shift?

[Jim Taylor]

Folks:

My paradigm shifted southward about 30 years ago, and I had to buy new
pants.

Jim Taylor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Gatrelle" <gatrelle at tils-ttr.org>
To: "Kenelm Philip" <fnkwp at aurora.alaska.edu>
Cc: "Leps-l" <Leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: Paradigm shift?


> Of course paradigm shift now applies to changing brands of tissue. As with
> butterflies - so with language. There are those who just lump words and
> meanings and those who search out the nuances. As a hyperbolist I usually
> fluctuate between a word splitter and lumper depending on the editorial
> theme.
>
> It is unfair to bring up spelling. My paradigm shift there would be to
find
> that I actually spell anything write. I knew that sooner or later you
would
> have to embarrass me by talking about the size of your state.
>
> Ron.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenelm Philip" <fnkwp at aurora.alaska.edu>
> To: <gatrelle at tils-ttr.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 4:34 PM
> Subject: Paradigm shift?
>
>
> >
> > Ron:
> >
> > I see you are following the gospel according to Saint Thomas (Thomas
> > Kuhn, that is), who popularized the term 'paradigm shift'. I prefer
> another
> > approach to these matters, described in the book 'On Human
Understanding'
> > by Stephen Toulmin.
> >
> > This business is not enough for a paradigm shift. Do you have a
> > paradigm shift when you find you have been misspelling a word for some
> > years? It will not change the way I have been operating, for one
> important
> > reason: the butterflies of the Alaskan tundra are not impacted by human
> > development at this time. And if oil drilling is carried out in ANWR,
> that
> > will not affect the butterflies. They're still doing fine at Prudhoe
Bay,
> > and any ANWR drilling would be done with a much smaller footprint than
> > was used at Prudhoe Bay. There _are_ some local b'fly populations in
> > Alaska, but none of them, to my knowledge, are in the tundra. Everything
> > there, like most arctic organisms, is widespread.
> >
> > There's been a lot of talk about drilling in ANWR destroying the
> > Refuge. That's nonsense. ANWR is huge, and any drilling would be in one
> > corner of it. Also, brief inspection of any recent map showing National
> > Parks, State Parks, and National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska will show
> > that ANWR is only a small portion of the protected wilderness land in
the
> > state. Tundra butterflies up here have nothing to fear except global
> > warming (or the next ice age, whichever comes first).
> >
> > Just for the record, there are around 210,000 square miles of Nat-
> > ional Park, National Wildlife Refuge, and State Park lands in Alaska.
> This
> > is more area than the total area of any other US state except Texas
> (262,000
> > square miles). I don't think Alaskan butterflies will be vanishing soon.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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