Sir, – Surely Joe Kehoe can’t be serious when he suggests that linguistic autinomianism might be perilous (Letters, March 18th), particularly as he had just dexterously deconstructed John Waters’s grandiloquent and pretentious disquisition on numinosity (Opinion, March 16th), and shown up his fallaciously erroneous hypothesis, albeit inadvertently.
Rather, his symbiotic dialectic of the infinite, which juxtaposes such contradictory and opposing conjectures, and which Mr Kehoe apparently finds so attractive, simply fails to work through the logical stages of thesis, antithesis and synthesis in accord with Hegel’s logic. If a critique is to be trenchant and cogent, then let it at least bear a modicum of plausible verisimilitude. – Yours, etc,
RODNEY DEVITT,
Tritonville Lane,
Sandymount,
Dublin 4.