No argument abt ideas can be won by contesting definitions. Invalidating words ppl use to discuss their ideas doesn't make the ideas go away
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I have been critical of 'philosophy' which is wrong. I'm really critical of approaches to ideas which attempt to obscure rather than clarify
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Deliberately, I mean. To protect ideas by making them hard to talk about. To resist bringing them into the light of day.
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Ultimately, a focus on semantics to the point where substance cannot be discussed usually indicates a position which has no substance.
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And this is why we find obscurantist jargon & semantic quibbling so dominant in theology & postmodernism. Don't be intimidated by it.
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Resignification, innit.
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