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A new you. Or was it the knew ewe?
Jack Burris (jeburris@STUDENTS.WISC.EDU)
Sun, 3 Apr 1994 06:03:23 CST
Cliff Sloane writes:
>I would submit there is a difference here. On the one hand, it seems
>perfectly reasonable to question how arguments are constructed, and how
>knowledge and its acquisition are defined. Fine. But my complaint is one
>of intention. I find the dense prose of "the French guys" intentionally
>difficult. This is no exercise in epistemological alternatives. This is an
>intentional effort to make readers struggle. One needs to look at the site
>of these difficulties, in an arena of academic competetiveness, to
>understand why people CHOOSE to write impenetrable prose.
APRIL FOOL'S DAY???
("Aw come on, I wasn't running THAT fast!")
Cheer up, imagine what a nightmare THEY'RE having translating THIS!
(The views stated above are not necessarily the views of the author, unless
he stands to gain from it).
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