How we define clear ideas? Clear ideas are those who truly
reflect the objective order from which they derive.
In other words a clear idea is the subjective evocation
of an objective fact. On the contrary, if the relationship between an idea and
the object represented is confuse, we have the perfect right to demand a
clarification.
Confuse ideas are the required tool of charlatans and
hoaxers. They think that a complex and unclear word will make us believe that they
have some special knowledge and we are ignorant.
Let me give you an example: Someone tells us that she/he
is a Cosmic Alchemist.
We should ask that individual what exactly means to be a
cosmic alchemist, and the whole house of cards will be destroyed in a second.
The same situation is detectable when scientific words
are used in a wrong context.
A self proclaimed time-traveler will try to shock his
audience talking about quantum-jumps.
The word quantum by the way is used ad nauseam by the
snake oil sellers.
There is a little law ruling the world of unclear ideas: those
words and ideas that systematically ignore their objective origins are also the
more unreliable.
Consequently, listen carefully to the rhetoric of gurus,
pseudo-scientists, and false prophets. You will see that the use of unclear
ideas is massive.
We, rational people, should always put them in the
situation of defining the meaning of their words.
Doing this we will learn that behind the unclear words
and ideas there is nothing at all.
The sad emptiness of a deserted circus.
