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Re: Fourth Person

From:Christopher Palmer <reid@...>
Date:Sunday, October 4, 1998, 23:03
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Tom Wier wrote:

> Personness is, after all, only a matter of deixis:
No, it isn't. For example, I'm speaking to you, even though you are far away. Are you the third person in the email? No, you're the second person -- the hearer. Deixis and discursive role are two different and non-covarying things. _____________________________________________________________________________ Christopher Reid Palmer reid@pconline.com www.pconline.com/~reid "A virtue must be our own invention, our most necessary self-expression and self-defense: any other kind of virtue is merely a danger." --Nietzsche, *The Antichrist*