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Pill Pod 121 - Obscurantism in French Philosophy: Searle on Foucault & Derrida

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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The Importance of Clarity in Language

"I actually wrote an entire paper on just the word clarity as applied to language," he said. "Clarity involves this whole metaphor of vision and sight, and our understanding of what language is based on this metaphor." He was I was trying to deconstruct this word of clarity. How do you have a clear argument, except by referencing language? 'You're not referring to the world outside, you're trucking in pieces of a certain sense and saying that this is what reality is'

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