The advantage of such confusing patterns is that they’re memorable and rhetorically interesting, but they receive no points for clarity.
If the writer is doing his job, the different senses of the term should be clear in context, and the construction serves to reinforce that a distinction is being made between two senses of a term. The cognitive dissonance inherent in the seeming contradiction helps make it memorable so that it can act as a touchstone to the in context meaning.
That’s if the writer is doing his job. Often, the writer is merely mesmerized by his own language, and is wallowing in the “mystery of the paradox”.
Of course. Complex arguments tend to call for as much clarity as possible, though, so i’d advocate generally avoiding these constructions in venues like LessWrong.
If the writer is doing his job, the different senses of the term should be clear in context, and the construction serves to reinforce that a distinction is being made between two senses of a term. The cognitive dissonance inherent in the seeming contradiction helps make it memorable so that it can act as a touchstone to the in context meaning.
That’s if the writer is doing his job. Often, the writer is merely mesmerized by his own language, and is wallowing in the “mystery of the paradox”.
Of course. Complex arguments tend to call for as much clarity as possible, though, so i’d advocate generally avoiding these constructions in venues like LessWrong.