Can Texts Be Read? The Anatomy of a Paradox

Anders Pettersson

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Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics Philosophy and Literary Analysis

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According to standard philosophical analyses of the ontology of texts, texts are abstract objects. However, that analysis has the paradoxical consequence that texts cannot be read: one cannot read ...

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