<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">There is such a thing as "bullshit", and this ain't it. </blockquote><div><br></div>Touché! Damn these double edged swords!<div><br></div><div>I clearly should have said: We can treat "everything is text" <i><u>as if</u></i> it is the feces of a male bovine :- )<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:echarles@american.edu" target="_blank"></a></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 9:00 AM glen\u2209\u2102 <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" target="_blank">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Ha! Yes, that's a much more reasonable statement than saying "'everything is text' is bullshit". It's not bullshit. It may be a bit misguided. Or perhaps they're overstating the case simply to provide emphasis to their (overly dense) audience. But calling it "bullshit" doesn't help. There is such a thing as "bullshit", and this ain't it.<br>
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On 8/21/20 6:25 PM, Eric Charles wrote:<br>
> ---You can't take "as if P" seriously without taking P seriously.---<br>
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> It's not what I'm taking seriously, though, right? I don't doubt that the authors in question take textual interpretation seriously (and come from a tradition of taking textual interpretation seriously). I also don't doubt that the methods they developed in that context can provide insights in other contexts. But that doesn't make those other contexts into texts.<br>
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> On 8/21/20 8:28 AM, Eric Charles wrote:<br>
> > A totally bullshit position that no one should ever have tolerated for a minute: "Everything is text."<br>
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