nostalgebraist

more seriously, i know people argued hard against positive manifold, but do we know they wouldn't do the same for fitness?

i can easily imagine my alt. universe having a fitness!Gould, et al. are you saying you find that hard to to imagine?

no, I'm saying it's an important omission because part of the point of the book is to argue against those! and that they…

(Gould, Gardner, Fodor etc.) have more of an impact than you think. AND that it isn't as obvious g factor is a given.

OK, i think we are evaluating the book on different standards. i fully admit i am not the target audience.

you're probably the target audience of the "arcane and nerdy disagreements" Stu decided to skip over in his basic into :)

ah! but my exact complaint is that one /can't/ skip over those disagreements in the way he does (cf my thread w him)

so my disagreements with you are a) What I said about what people expected, including making analogy unfair by lack of it