Don't be a writing tutor
I should perhaps enlarge on that.
It's one thing to claim that a particular arcane vocabulary exists mainly to baffle and blind, and another to say that something isn't worth studying systematically. Indeed, it's precisely because an arcane vocabulary looks like the outcome of systematic study, without necessarily requiring it, that we need to be on our guard.
Without doubt, there are some things that aren't worth studying systematically, and you don't need to be a Platonist to think so (or we're all Platonists). Whether or not management is one of them (which is a complicated question having to do with what we value and why), that isn't what I was on about.
I should perhaps enlarge on that.
It's one thing to claim that a particular arcane vocabulary exists mainly to baffle and blind, and another to say that something isn't worth studying systematically. Indeed, it's precisely because an arcane vocabulary looks like the outcome of systematic study, without necessarily requiring it, that we need to be on our guard.
Without doubt, there are some things that aren't worth studying systematically, and you don't need to be a Platonist to think so (or we're all Platonists). Whether or not management is one of them (which is a complicated question having to do with what we value and why), that isn't what I was on about.
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