Intellectual breakthroughs make old ways of speaking optional rather than exposing truth

Evidence

It is a mistake to think that Derrida, or anybody else, ‘recognized’ problems about the nature of textuality or writing which had been ignored by the tradition. What he did was to think up ways of speaking which made old ways of speaking optional, and thus more or less dubious. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 851

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader periodization thesis — modernism’s ‘originality’ vs postmodern reflexivity — which the reader specifically wants to push on for falsifiability. — connects to: Language itself has become a site where reified theory falsifies lived experience — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1100
• QUESTION: If innovation is just making old codes optional, what distinguishes a genuine paradigm shift from mere novelty? Worth chasing for the reader’s falsifiability test.