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"Ordinary Style Philosophy", by Jonathan Ettel & me, is out in Paradigmi. We argue that analytic philosophy's commitment to "clarity" over rhetoric ironically produced an easily detected rhetoric of its own—of modals, copulas, dep clauses, etc—and trace its history. www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.30460...

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Analytic philosophy can be distinguished from literary criticism with 90-95% accuracy via syntax alone. Moreover, a classifier trained to separate them in early C20 does better predicting future separations than a C21 one predicts past ones, suggesting philosophy syntax narrows/specializes in ~C21.

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