From: "matthew piscioneri" <mpiscioneri-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: HAB: Positive Dialectics 
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 07:59:50 



A quick and silly addition:

>(Matt)
>... the innate/natural *telos*
>of communicative language practice is to seek to reach an understanding,

Is Habermas's thesis here trivially true...in the sense of being 
tautologous. Thus restated:

Q. What is communicative language practice?
A. Language directed towards reaching an understanding

So, Habermas's central thesis reads:

The natural telos of language directed towards reaching an understanding is 
to reach an understanding. Huh?

Cheers,

MattP



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