<div dir="auto"><div>Clancy (non) verdict.</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Frank Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz<br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br>505 670-9918<div><br></div><div>Research: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2</a></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 1, 2026, 11:57\u202fAM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p>Nick -</p>
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<div dir="auto">I am deep in meteorology right now so I hope you
won\u2019t be offended if I give you an iPhone-Ish quick response.
Why not a dialectic between a love of convergence and a
fascination with the, a dialectic that never settles? I believe
you computer folk have a name for that?</div>
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<p>and the crufty lint I found in my navel today was roughly the
circular tail chase of:</p>
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<ul>
<li>affording to know</li>
<li>affording to act</li>
<li>affording to judge</li>
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<p>and the complement/negation of each</p>
<p>it seems to be a scissors-paper-stone influence/causal loop which
nominally is virtuous when we run it forward, but vicious when we
run it backward?</p>
<p>- Steve</p>
<p> <i>measure thrice, cut twice</i></p>
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