{"id":11760,"date":"2010-03-16T17:40:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T17:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/16\/a-sign-of-bad-writing\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T17:40:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T17:40:34","slug":"a-sign-of-bad-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/16\/a-sign-of-bad-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarity is Not Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">This scribbler has penned paragraphs which, upon re-reading, not even he could make head nor tail of. That is often a sign of bad writing. It can also indicate sloppy thinking. But it may also show a noble attempt to press against the bounds of sense and the limits of intelligibility.&#0160; And if philosophy does not make that attempt, what good is it?<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">There is, after all, such a thing as superficial clarity. (He said with a sidelong glance in the direction of Rudolf and Ludwig.)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This scribbler has penned paragraphs which, upon re-reading, not even he could make head nor tail of. That is often a sign of bad writing. It can also indicate sloppy thinking. But it may also show a noble attempt to press against the bounds of sense and the limits of intelligibility.&#0160; And if philosophy does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/16\/a-sign-of-bad-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clarity is Not Enough&#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":[69,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11760","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=11760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}