Re: [TruthTalk] Communicating & Understanding....Joint participants in a story

[Lance Muir]

Both a good and, important qualification, David. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Miller To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Sent: July 11, 2005 08:38 Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Communicating & Understanding....Joint participants in a story Lance wrote: > The meaning which we retrieve from a text will never > be absolutely identical with the meaning which it had > for its author or, for any other reader.   Very nice considerations, Lance, but the sentence I quote above is an absolute that perhaps goes a little too far with the word "never."  Sometimes a reader does receive an identical understanding of what was meant to be communicated, especially when that author is living within the heart of the reader and helping him to understand what he, the author, meant.   Peace be with you. David Miller.