Posted by alexandra_k on February 8, 2019, at 15:09:22
In reply to Re: fools errand, posted by alexandra_k on February 8, 2019, at 15:00:17
the actual work aspect is okay.
it's everything else. and sometimes the everything else comes through in the work, too, i guess.
there's the temptation to do philosophy in the style of heavy handed cognitive therapy. spot the cognitive error / error of argument.
after not very many months of cognitive therapy you learn not to say / express the 'cognitive errors'. you internally revise them before you speak.
but then it can get to the point where you cannot express some of your thoughts.
you cannot feel some of your feelings.
people are keen to try and accuse me of various things. false dichotomy. straw man. because they feel good if they get to catch me in a fallacy or something. like the cognitive therapists feel good if they catch you in a thought distortion or whatever.
only... it doesn't take very many months before you've learned the errors and the thought distortions and managed not to express them anymore.
so revisions are about staving off those kinds of objections / criticisms. putting in a sentance so the less careful reader doesn't miss the point or whatever. the reader cannot read the abstract or the introduction if the reader gets lost. if any of the readers get lost it is the students fault and the student must be requied to add in more signposting there.
they do need to be forced / incentivised to get students through in a timely fashion.
awful people.
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