Dear Richard and Roxanne,
Richard, your example of "competitive mating strategies" of lions and
gazelles used the same expession "competition" like Roxanne, but did not
refer to the same content/meaning, that Roxanne assigned to this
expression:
> When we compete with each other, i.e. operate in a win/lose model
The coexistence of gazelles and lions prove that they live in a win/win
context. Although Roxannes way to fill the word "competition" with content
is also strange for me, but it causes semantic problems, if you judge her
writings with your meaning of the words she used to express her point.
I believe that distinguishing between expession and content/meaning and
focussing on meaning is essential to dialogue.
Roxanne, in my last contribution to this thread, I suggested to allow for
competitive win/win-models. Can you see any sense in this? With your
explanation of competition above, it must seem to be contradictionary to
you, but by changing the meaning of the word, may be with the help of
Richards example, could this be an acceptable change of your point of
view?
Best regards,
Winfried
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