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Edouard Machery

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Doing without Concepts door Edouard Machery
"... we shall constantly be giving prominence to distinctions which our ordinary forms of language easily make us overlook. This may make it look as if we saw it as our task to reform language....[But] ... We don’t want to refine or complete the system of rules for the use of our words in unheard-of ways." (L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §§132-33.)

Machery, on the other hand, thinks it's perfectly fine to be "reforming" ordinary language, even if it makes it difficult or impossible for "professionals" and "ordinary persons" to communicate with one another about ... concepts?!

A travesty, if you ask me. A waste of erudition.… (meer)
 
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