orthonormal comments on Outside Analysis and Blind Spots - Less Wrong

68 Post author: orthonormal 21 July 2009 01:00AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 22 July 2009 02:02:53AM 3 points [-]

I'd say that most of the writing here is much simpler than most academic philosophy, although some writers (including me) are fond of convoluted sentences now and then. Keep in mind also that English is a second language for many of the other contributors as well...

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Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 22 July 2009 04:16:14AM 2 points [-]

I'd say that most of the writing here is much simpler than most academic philosophy

I would expect the writing here to be more difficult for a reader for whom English is a second language than the writing in the average philosophy book because the writing here is closer to informal spoken language.