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Full Idea
Bad writers have only shapeless floating splotches of concepts in their heads.
Gist of Idea
Bad writers use shapeless floating splotches of concepts
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 34[083])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.21
A Reaction
Under 'conceptual analyis' not because he analyses concepts, but because he recognises their foundation importance in philosophy. I get more irritated by unchallenged concepts than by drifting concepts. Writer must know and challenge their key concepts.