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Message:: [QUOTE="eddiespin, post: 2102639, member: 4920"]You're all over the place, now. Let me just stop you, here. There are not "2 kinds of wear." That's the presumption you have to shake. There are different degrees of wear. Why? Wear is wear. Let me be more succinct. Think what you're saying when you say there are "2 kinds of wear." You're saying there are "2 sources of wear." You're saying there are "2 modes of onset of wear." I agree. Everybody does. As a matter of fact, there are many different sources or modes of onset of wear. That's hardly full of news. Do you want to differentiate wear on the basis of what you can imagine is the source or mode of onset of the wear? Have at it. Nobody's stopping you. We're just laughing. Why? When something is smack up against one's nose, and one doesn't see it, well, that's kind of odd. Let me be even more succinct. Look at the coin, keep your eyes trained on the coin. DON'T FOR ONE SECOND LET YOUR MIND'S EYE CAUSE YOU TO TAKE YOUR EYES OFF THE COIN. One doesn't grade coins with one's mind's eye, one grades them with one's eyes. You start grading coins with your mind's eye, you're in trouble, as that's illusory, and a hard habit to quit. Grade them, rather, with your eyes, and on what your and everybody's eyes can see, rather than on what your mind's eye can imagine, and you got it. And that's all there is to it.[/QUOTE]