That's what the "B." stands for, then? I'm sure I haven't broken Shemano and doubt that I have even bent him. He keeps coming back with the same motivated thinking he started out with.
"The fact that so many who disagreed with Scalia felt compelled to engage > with him should give you pause." What is that supposed to mean? Scalia was a Supreme Court justice. People *were* compelled to engage with him whether they *felt* like it or not. Apparently he was not without personal charm, wit and intellect -- at least in the opinion of those who thought so, such as his colleague, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. One can be charming, witty and clever without meriting the accolade of being a "brilliant jurist." I know people who I would concede are smart who have stupid ideas and inflated opinions about how exalted their stupid ideas are. For example, economists... On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom Walker: I study and do textual analysis. There are two things I can > say with confidence: 1. those who presume to know what a text or its author > "really means" are seriously underestimating the complexity of authorship, > intertextuality and reception; 2. those who would assign some transcendent > status to a particular text are deluded in presuming that they know what > that text really means. > > ======= > > Tom, this truly wonderful. I don't know if I've ever seen anything better > in various studies of hermeneutics. > > But to waste it on what's-his-name . . . As I said (quoting Pope) "Who > breaks a butterfly upon a wheel." > > Carrol > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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