Re-Thinking Time at the Interface of Physics and Philosophy: The Forgotten Present by Albrecht von Müller
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Time Is Too Precious

This volume of essays about the philosophy of time is a lovely example of the problems created by professional thinkers when they have very little important to say but considerably more academic ambition. They prattle aimlessly; they write horribly; they obscure in order to hide their banality; and they boor the reader, and undoubtedly each other, to tears. With little grasp of grammar much less style, these authors seem to communicate through neo-logistic acronyms and baroque circumlocutions. They love to be ‘radical’ and ‘innovative’ and ‘fundamental’ but they have difficulty in describing what they are radical and innovative and fundamental about; so they puff. They can neither summarise nor explain their ideas in a discernibly logical way. They appear incapable of argument; rather, they expostulate. In short, they are actually uneducated. Their real skill is in playground games with arcane rules not thought. The result is... well, a waste of time.

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