Klarinet Archive - Posting 000510.txt from 2000/09

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: old is not as good as new
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:35:14 -0400

Dan Leeson wrote:

> In effect, I suggest that the presumption that time always brings
> improvements is false.

This statement of course is true. However, that does not prove the
converse. In other words, while the contention that newer is always better
is not true, that does not mean that there is never any such thing as
improvement. Not all new items are better than all old ones, but some of
them may be better. Not all old ones were of excellent quality to begin
with.

A 1984 Yugo can be made "as good as new," but why would anyone want to do
so?

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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