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While Philosophy is often split along analytic/continental lines, another way to split it is along the lines of whether the philosophers feel it is important to use precise language that tries to improve mental clarity and shared understanding and those who feel that there are certain ineffable qualities to ideas that are lost when you attempt to make that level of precision, both because of laziness in readers and because of inherent qualities to the ideas. Situationalists are very much in the latter camp and have said that at times they were deliberately obtuse so as to avoid being misunderstood.

Wait, they thought that being obtuse would reduce misunderstandings? That seems... unlikely to work as intended.

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