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Yes, it's the problem of being inconsistent or not. If you aren't, you get some rather icky results in places where the text seems not to intend such a thing at all. But if you don't try to be consistent in reading things, there's no guide as to how to interpret any instance of anything pretty much, so putting together any coherent reading of the text starts to fall apart into "well, I WANT it to be that way for this bit, and it doesn't MATTER what the text says since it's inconsistent anyway!" Which sort of gets away from the point of trying to read according to the text!
Which is not to say that that doesn't occasionally happen anyway; I think maybe we are all prone to it a little bit, given the messiness of the text. I have to watch myself there too. But one can at least try to be consistent...but then things start to look really icky sometimes. Arg.
Which is not to say that that doesn't occasionally happen anyway; I think maybe we are all prone to it a little bit, given the messiness of the text. I have to watch myself there too. But one can at least try to be consistent...but then things start to look really icky sometimes. Arg.