Toril Moi, "Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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The Importance of Common Sensibility in Language
There is absolutely nothing in ordinary language philosophy that tells you to agree with whatever you take common sense is. I think the idea of common sense as something like a compact majority holds that, and we are against it, is a bit of an ideological fiction. It's itself serving for intellectuals that only we can provide the concepts that will make ordinary people’s own critical ways of being in the world acceptable. Some kinds of difficulty are obscure and twist mandarin nonsense and others are actually necessary for simplicity.
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