--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> --- 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.

Of course, we don't...





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