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In 1978, following his recommendations, the faculty redefined “an educated person” as one who has an “informed acquaintance” with five academic areas: literature and the arts, history, social and philosophical analysis, science and mathematics, and foreign languages and culture.

Many of Sanín’s views fit with a “propagandistic discourse” in which mistaken ideas about transgender identity are replicated across borders, said Danila Suárez Tomé, a fellow at the Institute of Philosophical Research at the Argentine Society for Philosophical Analysis.

No one would argue that a newspaper column is an optimal forum for a philosophical analysis of how we should weigh the concerns of future generations against those who now populate Earth, but responsible journalism ought to avoid caricature of an important thought exercise and the billions of dollars in philanthropy that disparate branches of EA can take credit for.

Perhaps it’s because I never studied literary or philosophical analysis in the same way he did, but I never understood the harm of the more informal usage.

Deconstruction should apply only to the specific form of literary and philosophical analysis that takes the name, he argued, not simply to the idea of breaking anything into its parts.