On Fri, 30 May 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Lithoi@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >Apparition, bluff, chicanery, deception, delusion, dissembling,
> >dissimulation, duplicity, falsification, feigning, guile, hallucination,
> >idol, illusion, impersonation, imposture, legerdemain, misrepresentation,
> >pretence, pretending, representation, seeming, semblance, simulacrum,
> >simulating, simulation, trickery, wile, and will-o'-the-wisp. All of this and
> >more. It just isn't relevant that 'Snow is white' is true in L just when snow
> >is white. How could anyone thing that this is any part of what Foucault was
> >talking about. It is truth in brackets, as produced, as a way to do things
> >with words. True is what is satisfied by all sequences when you're dealing
> >with boring things. The things are the things in the sequences when you're
> >dealing with cool stuff over which there are wars and fights and tossed
> >fingers. Duh.... Lithoi
>
> Heavy, man.
>
> Doug
>
>
>
I must agree with Doug on this. A thesaurus masquerading as
incomprehensible babble.
--John
> Lithoi@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >Apparition, bluff, chicanery, deception, delusion, dissembling,
> >dissimulation, duplicity, falsification, feigning, guile, hallucination,
> >idol, illusion, impersonation, imposture, legerdemain, misrepresentation,
> >pretence, pretending, representation, seeming, semblance, simulacrum,
> >simulating, simulation, trickery, wile, and will-o'-the-wisp. All of this and
> >more. It just isn't relevant that 'Snow is white' is true in L just when snow
> >is white. How could anyone thing that this is any part of what Foucault was
> >talking about. It is truth in brackets, as produced, as a way to do things
> >with words. True is what is satisfied by all sequences when you're dealing
> >with boring things. The things are the things in the sequences when you're
> >dealing with cool stuff over which there are wars and fights and tossed
> >fingers. Duh.... Lithoi
>
> Heavy, man.
>
> Doug
>
>
>
I must agree with Doug on this. A thesaurus masquerading as
incomprehensible babble.
--John