09-12-2013, 09:28 PM
Quote:Is interpretation a valid form of critique?
If I may offer a slight critique of your question
(supposing I have interpreted it correctly),
I'd say that saying that "critique" possesses a
"form" is very akin to interpreting interpretation
as critique.
The question I think you meant to state (again
supposing I have interpreted your question correctly)
is more like: 'If you interpret "interpretation" as
"critique" aren't you implying that "meaning" is
a type of grammar that may be correct or incorrect?'
It's reductio ad absurdum time in the pigpen!
Critique necessarily requires interpretation;
interpretation does not necessarily require critique.
P.S. My favorite example of trying to pass off
interpretation as critique is when some idiot
complains that a piece of writing is too much
like prose to be a poem.


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