(urth) Pike's ghost

[James Wynn]

>>> Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>> If you can show an interpretation is wrong, you save others from being
>>> misled by it.  Seems a good reason to point out the problem.
>>
>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>> What do you mean by "wrong" and "misled?" These seem to assume that
>> there is a True Interpretation and all others are wrong, where I think
>> that texts in general and Wolfe's texts in particular are polysemous
>> and subject to a multitude of (apparently) contradictory
>> interpretations, all based on the text. 
>
> entonio at gmail.com wrote:
> It doesn't. 'X is wrong' is not the same as 'All but Y are wrong'.

Perhaps, but if your method of proof is to assert that there is an 
alternate interpretation, then you aren't proving anything except that 
there is an alternate interpretation.