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Originally Posted by Pyrotex
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah -- and one day, someone comes up and says, "carpentry is just whittling wood!"
To top it off, this someone with the cynical attitude has never built a house, a cabinet, a chair, and had only watched somebody whittle just once.
How seriously would you take this someone?
How would you answer?
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Well, I would hope I could provide the more correct answer for the person who needs a more precise answer.
Sure, maybe on a particular instant I might get all upset, and irrational like grandious scientists seem to get; but if my emotions are in check and I am confident that I know what I do, and I do what I do; and I have explored all the 'philosophical' ends of what I believe to be paramount of my life, I would have an efficeint answer at the ready. I wouldn't beat the dead horse with analogies.
In other words, you just gave a straw man argument.
Off the top of my head, I would define
carpentry as the
technographic methods associated with wood.
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carpentry
n : the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood [syn: {woodworking},
{woodwork}]
carpenter
n : a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
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Now, you are posing the analogy that science is to carpentry, as if science is something that cannot be defined in efficient terms, or what???
What's your point?
