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It is taken as given in the dictionary business in the U.S. that if a dictionary bears the name “Webster” it magically attracts sales far beyond those of a dictionary that tries to rely for its success on quality alone.
But the second reads like gobbledygook while the first tries to provide some basic notion of what is involved and where it is applied while, at the same time, gently notifying users that they are going to have to seek elsewhere for a proper definition, the understanding of which requires far more backgound in mathematics and logic than can be assumed in the average user.
This week, as he tries to explain NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, he's doing the same thing.
Where the artist and psychologist show us the richness of the human behavioral repertoire, the neuroscientist tries to break behaviors down into manageable, testable predictions of the associated brain activity.
Miller actually tries to address the nuances that make a music succeed or fail, which is pretty uncommon in his milieu.