It's important to take responsibility for the things we say but we do also need to take responsibility for our perceptions of what others do
Not talking about whether they are able to clarify their meaning but about them being the only one who knows what it is.
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I understand your point, & people should be able to clarify, but there are many times when people need to be taken at their own words.
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People can certainly backpedal & lie about their intended meaning, yes, and sometimes their original meanings matters. More often not.
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This isn't really what 'death of the author' - a piece of hyperbolic rhetoric - is about. More how readers bring their own meanings to texts
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I know. That's why I specified 'in general conversation.' I've argued before that this has broken its moorings & become more general.
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That the idea we create our own meaning of words & they're just as valid as the author's has become twisted & used to serve political ends
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There's a point here though where it becomes "how can anyone know what anyone else means?"
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Well, yes. Theorists like Derrida would argue that they can't.
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Derrida isn't is as crude as that, though some of his Anglophone interpreters often can be. Rather he talks about meaning being 'deferred'.
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