--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > snip > > > > > He didn't say anything that could reasonably be > > interpreted that way, as far as I can tell. > > Nothing to do with "absolute meanings," but > > rather a reasonable range of relative meanings. > > If your reading is outside that range, that's > > what I'd call "reading into." > > But who decides this reasonable range of relative > meanings and who decides what is inside and outside > that range? The point I'm making is that for all of us > this will vary, thus misunderstandings.
Yes, it'll vary to some degree, but not so much that it can never be said that one person is reading stuff that isn't there into what another says. If the relativism of language were that extreme, we wouldn't be able to communicate at all. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
