barrington interview

Norwood, Frederick Hudson · 07 Oct 2014, 12:12 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu (Norwood, Frederick Hudson)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 12:12:06 +0000
Subject: (urth) barrington interview
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?the terms "misprision", "better", "logic", "evidence", "right" and "wrong" are all subjective judgments?? ? Marc Aramini.

Ah.  No.  These words can be used subjectively but all have perfectly good objective meanings.  7 x 8 = 21 is a misprision, not better than 7 x 8 = 56, not logical, lacking evidence, not right, and, most importantly, is wrong.

I think Lee addresses this very well.  Wolfe is not a postmodernist.

Rick Norwood
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