I always aspire to speak as clearly and plainly as possible. Unfortunately that may not come across as accurately as I always wish. Anyways, you basically decoded what my meaning was here, and I appreciate your attention to clarification.
In lieu of your two interpretive sentences, I would restate “What if I disagree with your analysis? Well, you can’t make a strong argument against my interpretation, because the subject of both our interpretations is a subjective one. The interpretation of people’s comments (and social interaction in general) does not follow a logical truth table. Etc etc”
there were a few sentences I omitted because I couldn’t figure out how they were relevant to anything.
It looks like you didn’t understand my point about the taxonomy. To restate myself, what I’m saying is that it’s not clear that communication is something that can be chopped into bits and exist as the same thing. It’s not like we’re talking about an stew with a ham bone, peas, chicken broth, etc. inside of it. We’re talking about a complex entity that doesn’t necessarily amend itself to this procedure. On the other hand, maybe it does—but that requires justification. All of this (in my mind) should come before the principal part, the justification of the particular sub-levels that have been offered. And when those sub-levels have been offered, they ought to fit naturally into this scheme of a greater understanding of what communication constitutes. Overall, I would be looking for a more thorough analytic process than the one that starts the beginning of this post.
I always aspire to speak as clearly and plainly as possible. Unfortunately that may not come across as accurately as I always wish. Anyways, you basically decoded what my meaning was here, and I appreciate your attention to clarification.
In lieu of your two interpretive sentences, I would restate “What if I disagree with your analysis? Well, you can’t make a strong argument against my interpretation, because the subject of both our interpretations is a subjective one. The interpretation of people’s comments (and social interaction in general) does not follow a logical truth table. Etc etc”
It looks like you didn’t understand my point about the taxonomy. To restate myself, what I’m saying is that it’s not clear that communication is something that can be chopped into bits and exist as the same thing. It’s not like we’re talking about an stew with a ham bone, peas, chicken broth, etc. inside of it. We’re talking about a complex entity that doesn’t necessarily amend itself to this procedure. On the other hand, maybe it does—but that requires justification. All of this (in my mind) should come before the principal part, the justification of the particular sub-levels that have been offered. And when those sub-levels have been offered, they ought to fit naturally into this scheme of a greater understanding of what communication constitutes. Overall, I would be looking for a more thorough analytic process than the one that starts the beginning of this post.