what fans of recent continental phil typically don’t get: mixing in poetry with philosophy is *striking*
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making a difficult idea striking takes it from unintelligible to intelligible making it *even more* striking takes it from intelligible to persuasive, stirring
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but striking != clear to make an obscure idea intelligible adds clarity; to make it seem persuasive obscures it again
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not all intelligible claims are correct; in fact most are false, or easily misconstrued. and a truth is a sort of summit surrounded by foothills of error
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to think, to reason, you need to see when some clear ideas are *clearly wrong* - that’s (to mix metaphors) your lantern guiding you up and over the foothills
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