From: dmwri1-AT-student.monash.edu.au
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 12:13:44 +1000
Subject: Truth


Ken wrote:

> I guess I was thinking that rejoinder's never mimic the 
> "original" in its' monadic-like totality.  The counter-expression, 
> even if in agreement, is a critical distance in the expression 
> itself.  The contents of a conversation not only express a 
> conceptual content but reflect what is lacking in their content.  
> In this way a rejoinder "is" an expression of a critical 
> difference....  no two people are coming from an identical 
> perspective.... in the same what that no one person is 
> identical with their thoughts or expressions.
>
But is distance difference? Is it differance? Why is an expression of 
identity (counter-expression in agreement) at a remove difference? 
Isn't it just a wussy lack of commitment?

gilligan.