IQ issue

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Feb 8 15:27:15 PST 1999


Every conversation in which the participants aim at agreement presupposes the separability of form and content. Those who engage in the easy proofs of their inseparability (proofs which always, however, presuppose the separability) might read Kenneth Burke, *Grammar of Motives*, to gain an appreciation of the complexities involved. Propositions affirming the inseparability of form and content are simply incoherent: they literally cannot be affirmed. And incoherent arguments cannot be refuted -- they can only be ignored by going about one's business.

Carrol



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