[lit-ideas] Re: "No offence meant", "None taken": the implicature -- a clarification

In my earlier post, the sentence:



"I think his reasoning does a comparable wrong to that which he would redress 
by not endorsing Andreas's imposition of limits."



should have read:



"I think his reasoning does a wrong comparable to that which he would redress 
by not endorsing Andreas's imposition of limits." 

i.e. I read Mike's non-endorsement of Andreas's limit setting as attempting to 
forestall a prospective wrong, but I think acting on his reasoning would 
perpetrate a comparable wrong.  

The words are too strong by far for the situation, but I hope that clarifies 
the point I was trying to make in that sentence.

Regards to all.
Eric Dean
Washington DC

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