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Deliberately Vague Language is Bullshit
PUH32

Thanks for giving context! About the link, after submission it was automatically linkified.

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Deliberately Vague Language is Bullshit
PUH51

"Modern art uses vague language."

Just want to throw in a paper of mine: https://philpapers.org/rec/UNBATB Hope it's not bad practice here but it addresses exactly tis point.

I thought it made sense to be more specific here and see how bullshit works in art texts, and embed it in an art history context. Two takeaways,

  1. vagueness is different in different text types, but there are some general prototypes
  2. Specific vagueness may have its roots in specifics of the genre. For example, "the artist interrogates x" is meant to evoke a common stereotype of artists be
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Meta: I think throwing up a paper of yours is good practice here when it directly addresses the point. I link to my own blog posts in the same way all the time. By the way, there's an edit button too, which you can use to retroactively linkify your link.