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2016-07-02 22:07:28 Post No. 1362236
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2016-07-02 22:07:28
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Why do some claim that philosophical writing should be clear?
In mathematics a proof is judged to be correct according to the axioms of the mathematical systmes which it pressuposes. i.e. Mathematical systems tell the user what operations and what sequences of operations are correct or true so a sequence of claims and arguments and operatiosn can be judged to be true or false without doubt after a proper analysis.
But in many philosophical arguments and writings the goal is often to make the reader think of a completely new idea or even a new mode of thinking.
Lets say that in the future we will have a new mode of thinking and new concepts.
How do we get from not having them to having them? It starts with intuitions which try to convey something, a thought, a concept a way of thinking, that is not available yet. that readers do not know about and cannot fathom.
In philosophical writings new modes of thinking and percieving reality can be conveyed through means that can only be understood as appropriate once you try to understand them intuitivly. You start reading omething and it seems unclear, ill defined aligorical, obfuscating but, if you read on, finish reading and try to make sense of it, through this process you suddenly become aware of a new mode of thinking and after that, in retrospect you see how what you read was not dumb or obfuscating but nesseecary to make you understand this new mode of thinking.