Every ordinary sentence is as disordered as the world it describes.

Evidence

To take another illustration: sentences such as “my broom is in the corner” might also occur in Hegel’s Logic, but there they would be revealed as inappropriate or even false examples. They would only be rejects, to be surpassed by a discourse which, in its concepts, style, and syntax, is of a different order—a discourse for which it is by no means “clear that every sentence in our language ‘is in order as it is.’ ” Rather the exact opposite is the case—namely, that every sentence is as little in order as the world is which this language communicates. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 659

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The dialectical inversion ‘every sentence is as little in order as the world’ is a compressed statement of Marcuse’s entire anti-positivist position — worth sitting with.