I also learned much about (MC) carts from my retipper and friend
Axel Schurholz. He had the need to complain about his (many)
customers and supplier while I wanted ''friend prices'' for my,
as it is called, ''refurbishing''. A kind of mutual interest . He hated
emails but enjoyed our (phone) conversations. Because his
company was ''one man affair'' I suggested to him to use his wife
as secretary who would answer the emails. BTW I told him about
dissatisfaction in our forum about his ''communication''. His answer
was that his wife has no idea about carts so he would need to
explain to her what to say to the customers which would cost him
more time then by answering those emails himself.
But I also learned from logicians that names are not predicative.
That is why Quine wrote about ''primacy of predicates'' . So in
our context it is curious that we (me included) want to know ''who
the guy is'' who put together those Kiseki's. There are however some
differences in the way we describe the things. Say ''designer'' like
J. Carr, Van den Hul, etc. produce different ''emotive meaning''
then ''the guy who put (parts) together''. Van den Hul get ''his parts''
from Benz while Benz produces all (MC) parts except styli and
cantilevers. Even the Chinese discovered Benz as supplier and
ask curious prices foe their ''new china'' bodies. However van den
Dungen bodies are work of art while we want our ''precious'' not
only to sound good but also to look nice. That this guy is very
smart one can ''see'' from his attention to the details. Even the
value of ''myths'' by selling carts. So he never answered the
question about the name of Kiseki's actual designer. The
so called ''mystery'' is an important part of any myth.
