From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 19:26:51 BST
Hi Matt
I accept your defence. The author has no author-ity.
Just keep it auth-entic.
BFN
David M
----- Original Message -----
From: "MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT" <mpkundert@students.wisc.edu>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: MD A metaphysics
> David,
>
> David said:
> Rorty is very low on jargon, not always clear from Matt's fondness for the
Rorty slogans.
>
> Matt:
> Now, this criticism I accept. I am overly fond of Rorty's slogans.
>
> I have several lines of defence, however ;-)
>
> 1) I am not nearly as well-read and intelligent as Rorty as to be able to
snap out interesting explications of slogans at the drop of a hat. I'm
getting better, but still not great.
>
> 2) I think dropping long essays, in which everything is clearly
demarcated, into the MD isn't really the best thing. Once in a while, sure,
but all the time turns people off. I think a certain amount of sloganism is
only appropriate for a discussion group. I think of this e-mail discussion
group as in between a verbal discussion and an essay. Less slogans and more
explication than a verbal dialogue, but more slogans and less explication
than an essay. The one caveat I would put to this is I'm only talking about
single posts. In the course of a dialogue, a lot of things can have time to
come out in reasonable enough space. In fact, most of my "Confessions"
essay (to be distinguished from the "Confessions" post) came out of posts.
>
> 3) My standard defence of jargon, which people I think are finally
starting to take seriously: there is nothing inherently wrong with jargon.
The term "jargon" simply marks language that laypeople will not understand
and "ordinary language" marks language that laypeople will understand. We
need both. Without both, there is no physics, only romance novels.
>
> That's actually just a set up. The defence is: The only way to learn
jargon is to use it.
>
> And as Andy helpfully pointed out, and I will pick up in that other
thread, conversations are optional. I've never demanded that people
understand me. Contrary to popular belief, I'm not here to discourse ad
nauseum on the history of philosophy, or any other history. I'm here to
edify, here to perk people's interest in things I'm interested in. If they
are not interested, then....
>
> (For everyone that missed it, I just shrugged my shoulders.)
>
> Matt
>
>
>
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