{"id":12447,"date":"2009-08-27T11:25:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T11:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/27\/what-blanshard-might-have-said-to-derrida\/"},"modified":"2009-08-27T11:25:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T11:25:50","slug":"what-blanshard-might-have-said-to-derrida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/27\/what-blanshard-might-have-said-to-derrida\/","title":{"rendered":"What Blanshard Might Have Said to Derrida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A correspondent&#0160;reminds me that today is Brand Blanshard&#39;s birthday.&#0160; Born on 27 August 1892, he died on 19 November 1987.&#0160;&#0160;Here is a line from Blanshard&#39;s <em>On Philosophical Style<\/em><\/font><font face=\"Georgia\">, Indiana University Press, 1967, pp. 52-53: <\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Persistently obscure writers will usually be found to be defective human beings.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\" dir=\"ltr\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The entire essay is available online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyflood.com\/blanshardphilostyle.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A correspondent&#0160;reminds me that today is Brand Blanshard&#39;s birthday.&#0160; Born on 27 August 1892, he died on 19 November 1987.&#0160;&#0160;Here is a line from Blanshard&#39;s On Philosophical Style, Indiana University Press, 1967, pp. 52-53: Persistently obscure writers will usually be found to be defective human beings. The entire essay is available online here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-blanshard-brand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447","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=12447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}