I’ve thought about this a lot trying to figure out what they’re trying to do.
She doesn’t mention “he thought she was mistaken and said so” in her list of possibilities. If she thought of the obvious answer, why did she have to spend so much time pondering other motives for their actions?
Yes, she’s saying it’s absurd for others with limited knowledge of her to think they have knowledge about her that she doesn’t. And she supposes no one does absurd things?
But I think her opinion that a stranger couldn’t see something about someone else that the person themselves does not see is absurd in itself. A lot of people are not very self aware. And even people reasonably self aware are likely unaware of things a stranger would see in minutes. Some business school taped classroom interactions to show the students how they looked in the third person. The general take was that the class was both appalling and transformative, bringing things about themselves to their awareness that they had no clue about. Is there anyone who likes listening to their own message on their answering machine?
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She doesn’t mention “he thought she was mistaken and said so” in her list of possibilities. If she thought of the obvious answer, why did she have to spend so much time pondering other motives for their actions?
Yes, she’s saying it’s absurd for others with limited knowledge of her to think they have knowledge about her that she doesn’t. And she supposes no one does absurd things?
But I think her opinion that a stranger couldn’t see something about someone else that the person themselves does not see is absurd in itself. A lot of people are not very self aware. And even people reasonably self aware are likely unaware of things a stranger would see in minutes. Some business school taped classroom interactions to show the students how they looked in the third person. The general take was that the class was both appalling and transformative, bringing things about themselves to their awareness that they had no clue about. Is there anyone who likes listening to their own message on their answering machine?