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This is something that confuses me about the American tradition. There is a habit of using a word like 'deconstruction' as a synonym for 'analysis/ analyses' when the original word is perfectly adequate.
To this end, I don't see why 'metacognition' needs to be a synonym for the already-adequate term 'wisdom'. Wisdom is broad enough - the fact it's associated with metaphysics is not the fault, or an error of, the nomeklatura.
My understanding of post-Wittgenstein linguistics is that a word very precisely describes something, and shouldn't be abused; my understanding of American philosophy is that words are very bendy. It's a mis-appropriation of Nietzsche's 'truth as a mobile army of metaphors', if you ask me.
I am bitter because I was taught by a MacIntyre-ian cunt.
I have not seen Idiocracy, but I like that there's a lost etymology of 'idio' meaning singular.
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