It forestalls the sentimental self-congratulation with which we may dote on a victim of misunderstanding whose actual company we couldn't have stood for an hour, let alone nine weeks.
His conclusion, torturously arrived at and always held without final resolution, like the suspended chords in a Joni Mitchell song, was basically this: Hospitality is not a set of rules followed by participants, but, rather, a stream of misunderstandings whose proof of purchase is the shared uncertainty it imposes on both sides.
But then a series of misunderstandings ensues, Lucy (whose middle name is Diamond) is taken away, and Sam must try to get her back from a bunch of tight-lipped, well-meaning bureaucrats.
There's Mr Creecher, whose moniker is born of a misunderstanding.
The absence of this explicit clarification from Sterelny's book may lead to misunderstanding for those readers whose preconceptions of this debate have been shaped by a media uncritical of the ID theorists' account.
The show tells the story of Rochelle's parents, an ordinary couple whose love affair becomes clouded by misunderstanding and heartbreak.
They know that its emphasis on "career progression" displays a fundamental misunderstanding of self-employed advocates whose very raison d'être is to avoid the structure of employment.
There weren't the same misunderstandings as with a woman whose head was uncovered.
Mr Reuben, whose colourful career has been plagued by misunderstandings, tried a few years ago to set the record straight by inviting a veteran Fortune reporter, Richard Behar, to spend time observing the business.
He is also a video artist whose experimental work, "This and That and Other Misunderstandings," was shown in June on the WNET-TV show "Reel New York".
