Further Note on the possibility of literary criticism.

[Carrol Cox]

Here's an even better example than those I gave to test the possibility
of literary criticism as a systematic study. In that post I wrote as
follows:

    Also active here may be a premise that TOEs make sense. But the

    futility of any TOE, even one turns out to be true in physics,

    astrophysics, and cosmology, is not going to be possible in social
studies

    in general.

Now obviously, this is a nonsense passage as it stands. Can its
"intended" meaning be reconstructed? How confident can we be
of such a reconstruction? Does it make sense to hypothesize an
intention independent of the actual words produced? (Incidentally,
it is not at all obvious to me what I "intended." The second sentence,
as it stands, is pretty opaque.)

Carrol