[lit-ideas] The Water Board Conversations
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:29:05 EDT
In a message dated 4/27/2009 1:02:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
wokshevs@xxxxxx writes:
> Habermas's identification of the necessary and universal
> epistemic presuppositions/conditions of discourse seems right to me.
WO: Oh my god! Jl and I agree. I must re-think my position from the
bottom up.
----
On the other hand, it's vacuous -- such identification.
For surely the water board conversations are not precisely the 'vagina
monologues'.
PRESUPPOSITION for WATER BOARD conversation.
Some mutual language: -- then the dialogue seems redundant, if they
already share a language. For Grice, the conditions of conversation _create_
meaning.
Questions and answers only allowed. This is a restriction of the
'conversational game'. Habermas allows for some 'prescriptive moves', etc.
None of
those allowed in the water board conversations. Only,
"How many...?"
"Where...?"
It's usually the supply of 'information', which we don't _know_ it's
information. Could be 'mis-information'. It's rather then, compliance with
'answering' the question in a maximin way.
Cheers,
JLS
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