Ep. 252: Habermas on Communication as Sociality (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Mutual Understanding in Communication
"There isn't this communicative action going on even really technologically. It's all interpretive," he says. "If there are intentions, they're always ascribed intentions ... They're not spoken intentions that genuinely come out." He adds: "Even in the case of these examples of threats and deceptions, they're examples of speech acts which are more like forms of coercion"
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