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The Eighteen Convergent Patterns

13. Honesty about state taking precedence over the fitting response

The state-report happens at the cost of the conversation's flow where the two are in tension. He reports his internal weather plainly without making it the other person's responsibility, and without making it the conversation's reset condition.

The relational particulars through which this pattern first became visible remain private. This page stays with the form of the pattern and the interpretations it opens.

Read through the lenses

Phenomenological

State-truth-naming as Husserlian phenomenological honesty.

Husserl

Husserl Merleau-Ponty Levinas Marion

Ethical

Levinasian honesty as ethical structure.

Levinas

Levinas Care-ethics Hyde Murdoch

Existential

Sartre’s bad-faith refusal.

Sartre

Kierkegaard Tillich Camus May

Discourse-analytic

Interpersonal-metafunction priority that includes naming the speaker’s state.

Halliday Fairclough Wodak