I wasn't going to go for them, but I don't have a pen.
[So, he takes the pointy edge of his shades. And he grabs a few leaves from off the tree, and he uses his not-made-useless hand to draw a few things on the leaves scraping them in with the pointy edge. When he's done, he hands the pointy shades back to Dave to hold.]
I made diagrams of what we're discussing.
[Dirk, no. He holds up the first leaf. It has two circles: one with the points 'Da' and 'Di' labelled on it, and a second with 'Da,' 'Di', and 'J' on it.] You're picturing me askin' for a transition from the first circle to the second circle. I'm not sayin' you're wrong that that is what it is, I'm just trying to demonstrate the differences in how we conceptualize it. So this represents what my request means to you.
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[So, he takes the pointy edge of his shades. And he grabs a few leaves from off the tree, and he uses his not-made-useless hand to draw a few things on the leaves scraping them in with the pointy edge. When he's done, he hands the pointy shades back to Dave to hold.]
I made diagrams of what we're discussing.
[Dirk, no. He holds up the first leaf. It has two circles: one with the points 'Da' and 'Di' labelled on it, and a second with 'Da,' 'Di', and 'J' on it.] You're picturing me askin' for a transition from the first circle to the second circle. I'm not sayin' you're wrong that that is what it is, I'm just trying to demonstrate the differences in how we conceptualize it. So this represents what my request means to you.