I’ve thought about the meta issue you’re raising before, so to respond to it directly:
The trouble is most people’s thinking is teleological, viz. motivated to certain ends. As such writing about an idea without addressing the teleological aspects of an idea is going to be a failure to anticipate the reader’s needs and answer their questions. Thus when presenting an idea it’s generally necessary to take both teleological and non-teleological approaches. To address teleology alone you need not concern yourself with substance, and to address non-teleology is to ignore your (very human) reader, thus both must be considered simultaneously.
To put this another way, having a theory is literally useless if you don’t know what to use it for or how to use it. Not addressing use leads to difficulty in sharing ideas, such as in academic writing in journals that has expunged all teleos and consequently fails to often engage many readers with ideas.
Even more succinctly: people come for the arguments/ideas and stay for the ideas/arguments.
I’ve thought about the meta issue you’re raising before, so to respond to it directly:
The trouble is most people’s thinking is teleological, viz. motivated to certain ends. As such writing about an idea without addressing the teleological aspects of an idea is going to be a failure to anticipate the reader’s needs and answer their questions. Thus when presenting an idea it’s generally necessary to take both teleological and non-teleological approaches. To address teleology alone you need not concern yourself with substance, and to address non-teleology is to ignore your (very human) reader, thus both must be considered simultaneously.
To put this another way, having a theory is literally useless if you don’t know what to use it for or how to use it. Not addressing use leads to difficulty in sharing ideas, such as in academic writing in journals that has expunged all teleos and consequently fails to often engage many readers with ideas.
Even more succinctly: people come for the arguments/ideas and stay for the ideas/arguments.