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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Oh, I don't know anything about automotive repair. 
He was undoubtedly intelligent, but appears to me to be deliberately difficult to understand. It's not just the highly technical language he uses, but he seems to exemplify the modern philosopher's propensity to shroud his ideas in an unnecessary web of verbosity. |
My lecturer told us two possibly apocryphal things about Kant:
1. He was a great, entertaining lecturer, who used a lot of analogies and so on to explain his points, but didn't believe in using the same tools in the written version.
2. German students often read the English translation because it's easier to follow.