{"id":965,"date":"2018-10-27T20:34:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=965"},"modified":"2020-09-22T16:48:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T16:48:44","slug":"bullshit-as-unclarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/27\/bullshit-as-unclarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullshit as Unclarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John <em>Searle<\/em> recommends four maxims on the manner of writing:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be too wordy<\/li>\n<li>Be brief<\/li>\n<li>Be orderly<\/li>\n<li>Avoid obscurity<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>John Searle &#8211; Foucault and Bourdieu on continental obscurantism<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yvwhEIhv3N0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Curt John Ducasse wrote: &#8221; . . . every assertion made is to be sufficiently clear and precise to be capable of being definitely disproved if false.&#8221; (Preface to <em>Causation and the Types of Necessity<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Searle recommends four maxims on the manner of writing: Don&#8217;t be too wordy Be brief Be orderly Avoid obscurity John Searle &#8211; Foucault and Bourdieu on continental obscurantism Curt John Ducasse wrote: &#8221; . . . every assertion made is to be sufficiently clear and precise to be capable of being definitely disproved if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/27\/bullshit-as-unclarity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bullshit as Unclarity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keep-it-simple-stupid-kiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}