Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 13:52:22 +1100
From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: Phrasing


Jerry wrote:

>A silence may surely be "pregnant with meaning". Yet, until a
>discursive phrase is born of that silence, I find myself unable to
>construe it as a phrase itself.

>I'm willing to drop the issue for now. Perhaps continued reading will
>screw my head on right to comprehend silence (and gesture, and voice
>tone, grunts and giggles) as discourse.

Following Lyotard  and Wittgenstein (See "Situation" references in Index)

 "Meaning(s)" arise in situations, as feelings, images, words.

Communicating feelings, images, words, from addressor to addressee is what
Le Differend is about..

A "situation" is a "case".

When phrased and communicated the phrase may be "disputed".   Would
complete understanding in the Kantian sense, prevent dispute?  Sometimes
yes, sometimes no.  Each disputant has a unique life-history, intentions,
goals, stakes.

Like a basic injunction to writers:  "Write in such a manner that you will
not be mis-understood".

Each disputant can make a best effort


regards,
Hugh