[Milton-L] Knowledge, free will, etc.

[jfleming at sfu.ca]

I am asking what the target of inquiry is; and whether, as I suspect, there
is some danger of the inquiry becoming intractable or empty, depending on
the answer people are prepared to give and accept. 

I suppose that my short answer to your question is "yes." But I wd also tend
to replace "fiction" with "text." I'm not sure how much work the notion of
"fiction" does.

In any case, my original question still stands. JDF 

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:53:23 -0500 milton-l at lists.richmond.edu wrote:
> 
> 
> Does JD Fleming suggest that discussing the motives of a fictional
> character
> is a particularly problematic sort of activity, as opposed to discussing
> other aspects of a fiction?
> 
> Michael 
> 
> On 11/7/08 2:22 PM, "jfleming at sfu.ca" <jfleming at sfu.ca> wrote:
> 
> > May I ask, since "the Father in PL" does not appear to name anything
that
> > exists, what we are asking about in asking what he does or does not
> "want"?
> > JD Fleming
> > 
> 
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