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(with J. Daniel) A clever idea is one which sounds interesting before it is explained. Like a joke, it's charm is lost.

I want cleverness to return to its pejorative sense among the philosophically inclined -- lest we lose a way of referring to spurious ideas which impress rather than instruct us.

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