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
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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Forever. Every text "engenders infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion."
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Yes, so meaning is never 'exhausted'. But which doesn't imply no meaning at all.
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This isn't the practice here, either. Ppl are claiming their interpretation more valid than the speakers & proves their ideological point.
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So this is where people are just straight up intellectually lazy, and prefer one's intent to match their own. I see you deal with this...
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