File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 84


Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 19:37:10 -0400
From: Stirling Newberry <allegro-AT-thecia.net>
Subject: Re: PLC: "Deconstruction"


>Stirling,
>
>> And to ask a pair of follow up questions:
>>
>> You say that the meaning of the text is the intention of the author. In one
>> sense one can say that this happened and hence becomes the intrinsic
>> meaning of the work.
>
>Not necessarily. The meaning and the intention
>may be two very different things. Maybe like Mein
>Kampf.

So there is a difference between the meaning that would be gotten from
merely parsing the words - and the actual intent of the author?

If this is the case - then there are at least two kinds of meaning that you
would admit to:

1. The meaning that someone would find from simply parsing the words.

2. The meaning that the author intends to be understood as a consequence of
having read the words.

Is this so?


Stirling Newberry
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