Re: Motive Mongering Re: eminent domain

At 5:47 PM -0600 2/23/06, Carrol Cox wrote:

the nonsense that almost always results when disputants take to describing motives

At 7:27 PM -0600 2/21/06, Carrol Cox wrote:

It has been my experience, with few if any exceptions, going back to my first involvement in group politics in 1965, that when someone says “But this is how people perceive the world” what they really mean is “This is how I perceive the world but I don’t want to admit it out loud.”

Are “motives” different from unspoken meanings?

Doug

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