Re: Re(2): vvd AND contradication

Honorine Nocon (hnocon who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:44:27 -0800 (PST)

RE: Eugene's son's admission that he can play chess with himself because
he constantly cheats the other side, and Kathie Goff's interesting comments
on the difficulty of assuming the contradictory identities of winner
and looser:

I wonder if there is not another contradiction in that the individual
attempting to assume both roles is hampered in this case by being in what
amounts to a third role of omniscient constructor of a fantasy game
scenario. In this case, the competitive activity of game-playing with its
associated rules and roles would seem to be a complex instrument being
used for individual practice (learning/development).

Honorine Nocon,
UCSD/LCHC