Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: James and Sayers

From: Marianne Macdonald ( marianne.macdonald@lineone.net)
Date: 14 Oct 2004


On Thursday, October 14, 2004, at 01:23 am, Michael Robison wrote:

> Charlie Williams wrote:
>
> Seriously, I thought it was accepted that when a
> critic writes something judgemental it is just
> opinion.
>
> **************
> I buy into that. Declaring an opinion to be opinion
> is unnecessary.
>

No. An unsupported judgment is an opinion; a judgment supported by evidence and argument is criticism. So simple, so much ignored!

Marianne

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