Full Idea
A sentence invites recarving iff it will then do better justice to the internal structure of its content and/or its implication relations.
Clarification
'Recarving' is finding a new concept by equivalence
Gist of Idea
A sentence should be recarved to reveal its content or implication relations
Source
Stephen Yablo (Carving Content at the Joints [2002], §11)
Book Reference
Yablo,Stephen: 'Things: Philosophical Papers vol. 2' [OUP 2010], p.266
A Reaction
This invites human intervention in a logical process (by choosing which recarvings to do, instead of allowing all equivalences to generate them). He seems to think we should abstract in order to reveal logical form.