ned to
    illustrate the variety of relations that occur between the
    POV of a writer, especially as it develops through time, and
    the POV of a reader, in the light of the ways that it deflects
    its own echoes through a text in order to detect the POV of the
    writer that led to its being formed in that manner.    (016)

The first excerpt appears in the form of a dictionary entry,
intended as a definition of &quot;pragmatism&quot;.    (017)

| Pragmatism.  The opinion that metaphysics is to be 