Re: Thinking with Jim and Robbie

John said: "I would simply like to know how one verifies any assertions
concerning what Robbie would call specifically 'intention,' traceable to the
moment of composition, during those events."

I just wrote a slew of messages that might answer this. If they all fail,
maybe this presentation will be more fruitful.

I do not think that my fundamental disagreement here is that we actually CAN
see intention, where others are asserting that we can't. I think that my
fundamental disagreement (which is probably just an older agreement) is that
textually reasonable interpretations necessarily follow from that intention,
traceable to the moment of composition, while others here are tacitly
assuming that it does not (and thus necessarily, I think, either that the
substance of language can come to exist independently of the mind that
ordinarily puts it there, or that there is no relevant connection between
the substance put into speaking and the substance extracted from hearing).

-robbie

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