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Talking past each other

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David Horton writes that when characters in fiction talk past each other, the effect is to expose "an unbridgeable gulf between their respective perceptions and intentions. The result is an exchange, but never an interchange, of words in fragmented and cramped utterances whose subtext often reveals
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records that they "talked past each other, as happens not infrequently between simultaneously producing mathematicians."
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Paradigms and Revolutions: Appraisals and Applications of Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of Science.
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had dawn-to-dusk discussions of physics; and they continued their debate in writing, although
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The phrase is used in widely varying contexts. For example, in 1917,
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South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
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Index

Albert Einstein
David Hilbert
Felix Klein
Essentially contested concept
Chinese
鸡同鸭讲
雞同鴨講
"Introduction"
ISBN
0719034671
Anderson, Philip Warren
"Twenty years of talking past each other: The theory of high Tc,"
Gutting, Gary
OCLC 163461098
Categories
English phrases
Heuristics

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