File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1999/lyotard.9907, message 172


Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 16:39:12 -0700
From: Lois Shawver <rathbone-AT-california.com>
Subject: Re: the reality check is in the mail




> Sort of. I'm saying I may judge it good to be deceptive and I may judge it
> bad to be deceptive, and I have no way to say which is which in the
> abstract. What you say below is a case in point:

That's the most important aspect of what I'm saying, too. But I want to
add that we need a term other than "ruse" to refer to those instances of
taking a tack, when our actions are not particularly calculated or
deceptive.

You ask if I think he has a positive effect on me as a reader.  Well,
yes, but that doesn't mean that I accept everything as is.  It can be
improved for particular purposes, locally and provisionally.  

..Lois Shawver

   

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