Stated Proposition

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“Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.”
—David Lehman (b. 1948)

“Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.”
—Edward Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord (1583–1648)