IVIV (8): An Occasional Certified Zombie

[alice wellintown]

Check your logic book; it's not tautology. It may be a problem of
style, but since we're here on the internet, our loose conversational
styles is a given. What I meant was conveyed. You understood.  I've no
idea why you are dragging metaphor into this. Please explain.




On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
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> "What's not said is not said." Aside from this being a tautology, thereby
> having no meaning, the statement must be taken as an attempt to express
> something literally, which would completely miss the point. Metaphors are
> not literally "what is said," and anyone who knows anything about literature
> knows that metaphor is one of, if not the, most powerful tools available to
> an author. Inference is also a powerful tool that is "not said" in the text.
> It seems to me that many p-list posters, particularly the most insightful
> ones, use inference in their explications and explanations.
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