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"Analytic writing is perfectly clear while Continental writing is obscure"

MyrmidonMyrmidon
edited 2012-03-01 14:23:11 in General

http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html



Read this, and then come back and tell me what the argument was.


Not denying that a large percentage of continental writing is terrible.

Comments

  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    edited 2012-03-01 19:34:15
    (void)

    I only got halfway through because I realized that I should probably be doing topology homework instead, but I think the argument is that even sentences that seem to exist in a vacuum don't because they depend on language.


    Either way, while his argument is obtuse and technical, I'm pretty sure he had one, which is the opposite of every Nietzsche quote ever, where they all have such pretty language but don't seem to have any meaning at all.

  • BeeBee

    I read far enough to see the phrase "Kant's cleavage", giggled, and decided that was about all I could comprehend of it.

  • MyrmidonMyrmidon

    >Nietzsche 


    >Arguments




    Well there's your problem!

  • DonZabuDonZabu

    >Myrmidon talking about being comprehensible


    >Myrmidon

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