Re: Abstractism

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 12:54:54 GMT

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    Hi Joe Dees -

    >>>Perhaps the medium
    >>>merely facilitates the formation of meaning in the mind of the reader.
    >>
    >>Yup.
    >>
    >And it does that because it was engineered to do that by the writer. Not
    >just any meaning. Specifically intended meanings.

    Yup.

    And, they can be misunderstood, too.

    - Wade

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