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The foreword to the "book of a meeting" is often an excuse for a
paen of praise, a homily, or even an apologia - and sometimes a
combination of all three. While certain traditions have been
dispensed with in this volume the standard pattern for the foreword
has its advantages, so here at least tradition will be adhered to -
though in reverse order from that stated above. It The apologia can
be dismissed briefly, for the editors have explained in their
General Introduction that this is not the book of a meeting. All
that remains to be added here is a description of the modus
operandi. Being aware that speaking and writing are different
activities requiring diffe rent presentation, each participant was
asked to prepare a script for publication resembling what he would
speak about only in outline. It may be that as a result the essays
lack detail and are thin under some of the classical headings of
scientific writing. So the reader, in turn, is asked to accept this
and give his attention instead to the concepts and ideas contained
therein. It may even come about that this kind of presentation will
in the end result in something less ephemeral than the standard
conference proceedings book. Criticism of conference proceedings
and the type of meetings that give rise to these little-loved tomes
is not a new phenomenom."
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