[Milton-L] Fish and Milton

[James Rovira]

How do you reconcile your first paragraph with your final paragraph, Harold?

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Harold Skulsky <hskulsky at smith.edu> wrote:
> Intentionalism is the doctrine that the primary if not sole determinant of utterance meaning is the intention of the utterer. Intentionalism is false.

> The moral of the parable of Vladimir and Estragon: our profession becomes a laughing stock among the professions when it abandons the workaday and, for the most part, breathtakingly unbeautiful business of doing its homework in an effort to get straight what Estragon actually got said. (Cf. Leopold von Ranke's embattled definition of history.)


Jim R