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One thing I can find very aggravating about philosophical papers is that the writing sometimes appears to be almost purpusefully obfuscatory. Here is a good case in point:

"The monadic frame of the mind must explode."

I simply have no idea what the content of this sentence is, much less the truth value. (This is the first place in the paper where the word "monadic" appears, so I don't even have context.)

Date: 2006-09-26 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sharikkamur.livejournal.com
Serious amounts of empathy here! Earlier this year I found myself at a cognitive science workshop that turned out to be far more focussed on philosophy than cognition, and I came across this one:

Power, in the analyses which I have proposed concerning the temporality of existence and of individualisation, is what I have called epi-phylogenesis; that is to say, power is the tekhn interpreted as that which underlies and transmits the pre-individual milieu which the "I" and the "we" inherit.

Forgive me for being a simple physical scientist, but obfuscatory seems a perhaps a little generous when dealing with BS of this sort.

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