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Ideas for B Hale / C Wright, Noam Chomsky and Gilles Deleuze

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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 1. Fallacy

12223	It is a fallacy to explain the obscure with the even more obscure [Hale/Wright]
	Full Idea: The fallacy of 'ad obscurum per obscurius' is to explain the obscure by appeal to what is more obscure.
	From: B Hale / C Wright (The Metaontology of Abstraction [2009], §3)
	A reaction: Not strictly a fallacy, so much as an example of inadequate explanation, along with circularity and infinite regresses.

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / c. Category mistake as semantic

18009	Chomsky established the view that category mistakes are well-formed but meaningless [Chomsky, by Magidor]
	Full Idea: The view of Chomsky in 1957 that category mistakes are syntactically well-formed but meaningless is a very standard one.
	From: report of Noam Chomsky (Syntactic Structure [1957]) by Ofra Magidor - Category Mistakes 1.3
	A reaction: I'm going off the idea that they are meaningless, largely because I am beginning to sympathise with the view that any composition of meaningful components is meaningful (even if blatantly false).