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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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Does the following sentence want to say that "Sadler himself, as a person in the party of situationists, agrees that situationists themselves deliberately impose complications into this conception"?

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As an implicated party in this endeavour, Sadler himself identifies such a perception as one conjured with a strong element of deliberation on the part of the situationists themselves.
  

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Without any context, I find the original sentence almost impossible to understand. But it does not say that Sadler is a person inn the party of the situationists. Clive

  • Without any context, I find the original sentence almost impossible to understand.
  • But it does not say that Sadler is a person inn the party of the situationists.
  • Clive
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Without any context, I find the original sentence almost impossible to understand.
But it does not say that Sadler is a person inn the party of the situationists.

Clive
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Hi @Clive . This is the full context:The conditional tenor of Sadler’s observations points to a perennial sense, when it comes to contemplating the situationists’ work,of not quite being able to visualise what – or, indeed, how much of what they talked and wrote about – they actually did (or performed).And what exactly it ‘looked like’. In spite of considerable academic attention – periodically r
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And does " points to a perennial sense" mean "points to the fact that such a thing continued for a long time"?
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And does " points to a perennial sense" mean "points to the fact that such a thing continued for a long time"?

Yes
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Was Sadler one of the party of situationists?

Clive
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He has books and papers on the subject of "situationism". And what is your answer to my first question, according to the provided context? Maybe it says that Sadler himself as a person who has tried so much to clarify the position and activities of situationists has not been so successful in this regard.
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You asked if this is correct.
"Sadler himself, as a person in the party of situationists, agrees that situationists themselves deliberately impose complications into this conception."

No, he wasn't in the situationist party.
Yes, he says they want to make it complicated
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I am reading it because of its subject. For some kind of research!
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It's a difficult text to read and to understand.

Clive
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YES! You are right! But I am happy to have generous mentors like you here.

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