intentional fallacy

[Vaska Tumir]

Mike H wrote:
[lots of nice stuff on Barthes, snipped]

>It is rather inaccurate to argue that intentions are a fallacy, this kinda
>wishes away a most difficult aspect of behaviour. However, neither can
>intention be valorised as some noble practice or excuse (but what I really
>meant was...)

Why do I have a feeling that Dana will have that last chuckle on all of us
who jumped in to debate intention...?   The subject line of her post
undermines the overt content of the message she'd sent and says exactly what
Mike H is suggesting in that last sentence above -- it just took me some
hours of sleep to finally notice it!  And, given the context, i.e what she
was responding to: intentional PHallacy, indeed, as in "the road to Hell..."
adage.

Don't go lurking, Dana -- we'd miss your wit and incisiveness.  I would....

Vaska