[lbo-talk] vaca reading

[Chuck Grimes]

But did Strauss believe that he had "contradicted" Hobbes, or that he merely 
had identified the esoteric meaning beneath the quoted passage?  That's the 
fun in the esoteric game: you can wriggle out of anything.

Mark Bennett

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This is an interesting problem all its own. I decided to take what Strauss 
wrote at face value. So if I read something, I assumed the writer intended 
to say what he actually wrote. If what he wrote was wrong, then it was 
wrong, period. So I went looking for these kinds of mistakes.

CG

ps. I will give Strauss credit because he made me read and think