ABSTRACT
How nice it is to have kindred spirits in the discipline. My first reaction to reading the other chapters in this book was one of delight, particularly as I remembered the response that Pearce and I received when we began to raise some of these issues in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Doing rigorous qualitative casework instead of laboratory experiments, treating meaning as constituted in a conjoint process not concepts in the head or points in semantic space, and considering patterns of action rather than quantities with central tendencies all seemed sheer heresy to most in the discipline. We were often asked to “recant” or at least disappear, although not usually in such polite language.
