--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: If that is the great discovery it looks like a mountain laboring mightily to give birth to a mouse. That is not even Wittgenstein's _Philosophical Investigations_, it's Linguistics 101.
The incomprehensible jargon of many continental writers is an old trick of looking profound to those who are too insecure to ask "what the f___ does that mean?"
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Wittgenstein never used incomprehensible jargon, of course. The Tractatus is a marvel of clear intelligibility.
I think a lot of the "X was too unclear of a writer for me to read" is another way of saying "I was too fucking lazy to make the effort to understand what X was saying."
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