Reason itself requires a vocabulary beyond common usage.
Evidence
One might ask what remains of philosophy? What remains of thinking, intelligence, without anything hypothetical, without any explanation? However, what is at stake is not the definition or the dignity of philosophy. It is rather the chance of preserving and protecting the right, the need to think and speak in terms other than those of common usage—terms which are meaningful, rational, and valid precisely because they are other terms. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 662
Categorization
- XREF: Sets up the attention economy thread — common usage as the administered vocabulary; thinking ‘in terms other than those of common usage’ is the precondition for critique. — connects to: Language requires general terms that cannot be explained purely by particulars — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 587; Philosophy needs no artificial terminology because usage naturalizes foreign words — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1137; Language enables meanings rather than passively carrying them (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Language requires general terms that cannot be explained purely by particulars
#expands(0.85) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 587 - Philosophy needs no artificial terminology because usage naturalizes foreign words
#contradicts(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1137 - Formalized reason renders theory incomprehensible and thought meaningful only without meaning.
#complicates(0.80) - Ordinary-language philosophy cannot validate meaning because speech encodes manipulated contradictions
#qualifies(0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 699 - Language enables meanings rather than passively carrying them
#expands(0.75) - The word “and” expresses an external negation separating thises
#exemplifies(0.75) - Relying on isolated phrases ripped from context commits a fallacy
#exemplifies(0.72) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1232