Well, if there was an AHA! moment, at least we know it originated near your right ear...eh....sort of.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/books/08creative.html :-) --Mike On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 2010 12:18:19 -0700, Christopher D. Green wrote: >>Allen is perhaps exempt, given his background, but it seems to me that >>psychologists complaining about the turgidity of other scholars' prose >>is a very dangerous game to be play. If anyone is guilty of >>intentionally making relatively simple ideas seem complicated by giving >>them inordinately arcane labels in order to render them "scientific," it >>is psychologists. > > Chris paints, I think, with a very wide brush and very broad strokes. > I hazard that the philosophers come in first when it comes to using > arcane or even mundane terms in ways that are simply uninterpretable. > For fun and giggles, see the following student article on the rehabilitated > Nazi Martin Heidegger; see: > http://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-f-word/article/2010/4/27/being-nussbaum-butler-academic/ > > Favorite line: > |Encountering impossible semantic permutations of the word “being”—capitalized > |and uncapitalized, infinitive and participle, singular and plural—I took to > narrating > |the most esoteric examples aloud. What else could I do with a phrase like > “Being > |means the Being of beings”? > > And how about this conclusion: > |In the end, beyond elucidating the question of being, Heidegger taught me > that > |all academic disciplines are forms of gibberish—specialized lexicons that > must > |be mastered before they can glean any insights. Each is comical in its own > way, > |whether through overzealous use of the word “being” or too much C++. > > Note: the article gets extra point for links to the "Postmodern Generator" > and the "Bad Writing Contest" websites. > >>My personal (anti-)favorite has always been the behaviorists' penchant >>for using "perseverate" whne they mean simply to repeat or continue. > > Ah, come on, stop beating up on the behaviorists. Everyone knows that > you have to go to the phenomenologists in order to get authenic gibberish. ;-) > > -Mike Palij > New York University > m...@nyu.edu > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: tipsl...@gmail.com. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13541.42a7e8017ab9578358f118300f4720fb&n=T&l=tips&o=2568 > or send a blank email to > leave-2568-13541.42a7e8017ab9578358f118300f472...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2575 or send a blank email to leave-2575-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
