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Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: Dieter Zimmer on Boyd, Alexander thread: Cautionary
note fron Kurt Johnson
Re Kurt Johnson's "cautionary note"
on the Boyd/Alexander thread. Perhaps we all have to disagree, but then I
suggest we better stick to what has actually been said. Kurt writes that I
claimed there is no evidence about imperfect mimicry, and he objects to this
claim of mine. "Dieter's comments, which may have been offhand, that there
is no evidence out there about imperfect mimicry overlooks this literature"
[the one on imperfect mimicry]. However, I never said there is no evidence
for imperfect mimicry, neither offhand nor otherwise. Quite on the
contrary, not on nabokv-l but in other contexts I have repeatedly argued that
mimicry does not need to be perfect in order to work, and I felt backed by
peer-reviewed literature. So what's the problem?
Dieter E. Zimmer
September 3, 2002 --
11pm