Re: Fourth Person
| From: | Christopher Palmer <reid@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 4, 1998, 23:03 |
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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.
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"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*