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Re: Conflict resolution?

Jim Browning wrote:
> This is the reality of the environment within which we must find
> solutions...

  I'd like to comment that the environment is kind enough to
provide constraints on the solutions we might provide, and
that this is a **really nice** thing.

  I like adding constraint clusters to problems in my head
until either I overconstrain the probklem or my brain overflows.
In the latter case, I'm probably looking at the problem from the
wrong viewpoint. In the former case, If I can find the right constraint
cluster to loosen, I have a small possible solution set to look at. 
(Both are variants on Occam's razor, by the way.)

  And yes, overconstraining problems sounds counterintuitive.
but I claim, based on the above, that it's a good idea.  And
eminently suitable in this discussion.

--dave
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