{"id":10368,"date":"2011-09-11T12:24:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T12:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/11\/on-redundancy\/"},"modified":"2011-09-11T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T12:24:40","slug":"on-redundancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/11\/on-redundancy\/","title":{"rendered":"On Redundancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Redundancy is a stylistic flaw at worst. A noted chess writer advises, &quot;You need to get psyched up within your own mind.&quot; One does indeed need to get psyched up to play well. But is it possible to get psyched&#0160;&#0160; up in someone else&#39;s mind, or outside any mind?&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">So the admonition is redundant and serves no purpose. Sometimes, however, redundancy serves the purpose of clarity. A noted writer on universals speaks of two particulars sharing a universal in common. This is a redundant formulation: if the universal is shared by the two particulars, then they have it in common. But the redundancy helps explain what &#39;share&#39; means and thus serves clarity. So I offer this aphorism:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; Pleonasm in pursuit of precision is no logical sin, but at worst a&#0160;stylistic peccadillo.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redundancy is a stylistic flaw at worst. A noted chess writer advises, &quot;You need to get psyched up within your own mind.&quot; One does indeed need to get psyched up to play well. But is it possible to get psyched&#0160;&#0160; up in someone else&#39;s mind, or outside any mind?&#0160; So the admonition is redundant and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/11\/on-redundancy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Redundancy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}