Boo Radley
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Words mean things and, for the record, I'm not listening to key words and being fooled. I'm hearing key words and tuning the rest out because I already know what follows. You do exactly the same thing in every thread I've read thus far and I did not insinuate that you were a fool...
Yes, words mean things. but not anything you want them to mean. People string words toegther, not only in sentences but in paragraphs, and longer explinations. Ignoreing the context is to lie. Let me give an example;
In the paly Much Ado about Nothing, Benedict is in a bit of courtship with Beatrice. In a conversation with her he says: "Enough, I am engaged." If we took the Beck model of dishonest discourse, Would could take that quote and say see, Benedict was playing with beatrice, what a jerk, he's already engaged. We'd be wrong. We would not have the context correct at all, missing the meaning of the conversation entirely. Benedict is actually agreeing to kill his freind for Beatrice. Quite different than our beckish reading of the quote.
Context matters as well. words carry different meanings when placed in the context of a discussion. Pretending they don't is dishonest.