Philosophers whose prose is so dreamy it won't even send you to sleep

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Assuming — fingers crossed — that analytic philosophers have failed in their quest to prove that such notions as ‘deservingness’ and ‘proportionality’ are nonsensical, their reputation as tedious prose writers is deserved but disproportionate.

Some analytic philosophers speak in symbols and jargon and ‘if and only if’s; others write so dreamily that the…