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What Is Memento? Ontology And Interpretation In Mainstream Film, Andrew Kania
What Is Memento? Ontology And Interpretation In Mainstream Film, Andrew Kania
Andrew Kania
At the end of the flashback, quite late in Memento, when we finally get to see what Leonard remembers of the incident that led to his memory impairment, the camera pans slowly away from a close-up of Leonard's head, oozing blood onto the tiles of his bathroom floor (E, 1:19:27). Just before the flashback fades out, and we return to the present in which Leonard is recounting this memory to Natalie, the frame includes only the bathroom floor, tiled entirely in white with the exception of two black tiles in opposite corners of the screen, like dots begging to …
Scepticism And The Interpreter, Damian Cox
Scepticism And The Interpreter, Damian Cox
Damian Cox
This paper defends an argument from interpretation against the possibility of massive error. The argument shares many important features with Donald Davidson’s famous argument, but also key differences. I defend the argument against claims that it begs the question against scepticism and that it leaves the sceptic with an obvious means of escape.
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