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> He also should have run this through a spell checker. What's an example of a spelling mistake in it? I read it carefully and didn't notice any.
Gonna leave that as an exercise to the reader. (You could run it through a spell checker, too.)
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I took Intro to Modern Philosophy with one of the top Kant scholars in the world, and when we got to Kant the professor warned us that he was a brilliant thinker but a terrible writer. He shared the old philosophical cliche, "Hume wrote about complex ideas simply, Kant wrote about simple ideas complexly." And yet to this day I suspect that Kant got a lot right, or at least set the terms of debate for hundreds of year…
That tracks. Language is a kind of technology, that evolves to adapt to new uses. A simple elegant python program that fits on a slide might have taken tens of thousands of lines of obtuse fortran.
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Gonna leave that as an exercise to the reader. (You could run it through a spell checker, too.)
There aren't any spelling errors. If you want to claim otherwise it would be easy for you to show examples.
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There aren't any spelling errors. If you want to claim otherwise it would be easy for you to show examples.
By now, it has been corrected. When I wrote my comment, "surprising" in end note [1] was misspelled "suprising."
Reading Graham's essays on writing always puts me in mind of the videos where Mexican moms react to Rachael Ray trying to cook ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFN2g1FBgVA ), or a Malaysian guy has to watch a BBC cook make rice ( https://youtu.be/53me-ICi_f8?si=0AaZ82dk_AYFqJAx&t=226 ).
For me the beauty of idlewords's own blog ( https://idlewords.com/ ) is that it's so good it makes me want to write. Similarly, I find Graham's writing so bad that it also makes me want to write. (note: idlewords, if you see this, your blog is misbehaving at the moment. For example, PHP is complaining bitterly on this page right now: https://idlewords.com/2018/10/ )