[PEN-L:30627] Re: RE: Re: academic lingo

[joanna bujes <joanna.bujes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> But the idea of "a new pseudo-mathematical language
> that would make meaningless debates impossible and force some form of
> responsible analysis" has been used for this purpose.

True. But if our goal is to find the truth, rather than to censure
unorthodox ideas, the technique of choice would be something like
cultivating the rigor of thought shown by Wittgenstein in
"Philosophical Investigations"  or by Marx in practically
everything he wrote.

I refuse any option that excludes the vernacular as a common idiom. 
It is not our language that fails us, but our (unacknolwedged) motives.

Joanna