{"id":12561,"date":"2009-06-30T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T11:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/30\/linguistic-smuggling\/"},"modified":"2009-06-30T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T11:36:11","slug":"linguistic-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/30\/linguistic-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistic Smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Robert Paul Wolff, <em>In Defense of Anarchy<\/em>, p. 72:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Only religious superstition or the folly of idealist metaphysics could encourage us to assume that nature will prove ultimately rational . . . .<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Linguistic smuggling has all the advantages of theft over honest toil. The mere phrase &#39;religious superstition&#39; smuggles in the proposition that all religion is superstition, while &#39;the folly of idealist metaphysics&#39; insinuates the proposition that idealist metaphysics is foolish. Both propositions are false; but even if you disagree with me on that, you must agree that they cannot be assumed to be true.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A critical reader doesn&#39;t let himself be bullied by verbiage of the above sort. He unpacks the loaded phrases and tests their explosive power, if any.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Paul Wolff, In Defense of Anarchy, p. 72: Only religious superstition or the folly of idealist metaphysics could encourage us to assume that nature will prove ultimately rational . . . . Linguistic smuggling has all the advantages of theft over honest toil. The mere phrase &#39;religious superstition&#39; smuggles in the proposition that all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/30\/linguistic-smuggling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linguistic Smuggling&#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561","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=12561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}