The Need for Concision and Clarity on the Philosophy Forums
- Aristocles
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Your clarity was lost in overexplaining your point.
Lastly, I wish there were logic involved, in addition to the four points you insist on to include in philosophical discussions on these forums.
- Cirrus
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By the way, the need for an additional rule about overusing metaphors says a lot about the kinds of members on these forums! It's hilarious, and I probably need to be told this as much as anyone. I'll do my best, and take it as a sign that I'm in the right place.
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Scott wrote: ....make your post as concise and clear as possible.
Agreed.
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Scott wrote: ....make your post as concise and clear as possible.
Agreed.
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Also, never hit the quote button thinking that it's the edit button!Ormond wrote:Scott wrote: ....make your post as concise and clear as possible.
Agreed.
-- Updated April 26th, 2016, 9:11 am to add the following --
(Nested quote removed.)
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Typical Simone causing trouble. This woman had a lot of nerve. She didn't realize that if what she suggests were ever adopted in life, much less on an internet forum, it would deny the virtually essential psychological need to BS. This would be intolerable. For example it would destroy the whole Interfaith movement. Without BS, there would be no political correctness. Then where would we be.“To clarify thought, to discredit the intrinsically meaningless words, and to define the use of others by precise analysis—to do this, strange though it may appear, might be a way of saving human lives.”—Simone Weil
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- Commonsense2
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This is awesome!
Scott wrote:
"....make your post as concise and clear as possible.
Agreed.
-- Updated April 26th, 2016, 9:11 am to add the following --
Scott wrote:
....make your post as concise and clear as possible.
Agreed.
-- Updated April 26th, 2016, 9:11 am to add the following --
Ormond wrote:
Scott wrote:
....make your post as concise and clear as possible.
Agreed.
-- Updated April 26th, 2016, 9:11 am to add the following --
(Nested quote removed.)
Also, never hit the quote button thinking that it's the edit button!"
Not only is this post an example of the quote/edit button troubles you deplore, but furthermore, it is offered with a subliminal sense of humor.
(Alternatively: This post humorously exemplifies its content.)
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I suppose the subject, "The Need for Concision and Clarity on the Philosophy Forums" is another example of your sense of humor, right?
It could use a taste of its own medicine. I mean, concision employs as few words as possible to convey as much information as necessary. So, I would revise the topic to the following: "Be Concise" (ha!).
Now, that I have had my fun, I am challenging probably all the members and guests who are maybe reading this, to try and make this sentence, i.e. the one that is right here before their eyes, a little more brief, so to speak, but complete in a way that conveys the information in readable fashion if they have some time on your hands.
Maybe that was too easy. Here's a challenge that requires more perspicuity:
Be concise.
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I meant try to make the sentence, "Be concise.," more concise.
- Hepiaaro
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"Many experiments have shown that readers understand and remember material far better when it is expressed in concrete language that allows them to form visual images..We are primates, with a third of our brains dedicated to vision, and large swaths devoted to touch, hearing, motion, and space. For us to go from “I think I understand” to “I understand,” we need to see the sights and feel the motions. " (Steven Pinker, 2015).
Using an example from these forums. Instead of writing.
The skeptic observation is that there exist scenarios in which our perceptions, or even the very construction of propositions, can be manipulated such that "P is true" is actually false but we can't tell.
Write something like this
Suppose we assume that P is true. A good sceptic will ask: "We assume that P is true, but what if isn't? What if it is actually false, but we can't tell?".
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- Pattern-chaser
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Metaphors are inextricably mixed into our languages. We don't even notice them. For instance, rivers do not literally run; they don't have legs with which to do so. This "run" is a metaphor. See Lakoff and Johnson's "Metaphors we live by" for a fascinating journey into metaphor.
- Repoman05
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I do not stand by OP.
- Repoman05
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"edit" if you have it, use it maybe? What's more disrespectful: making a mistake, or, continuing to make a mistake.Proof-reading your posts not only allows you to fix spelling and grammar errors, but it also allows you to make sure it is as clear and concise as possible.
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What is "it"
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If it's going to take a while to write and you don't want to risk losing it, I suggest writing your post in something like Notepad first and then copying/pasting it into the forum. The only problem with that is that you have to write all the square-brackety tags, like the quote tag, manually. But you get used to that.Repoman05 wrote:Everyone else has to put up with a dissertation vaporising in a puff of internet code.
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