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much actual philosophical work is about semantics.
so i don't see the genre problem.
but the phrase isn't tuned enough to do much work.
premeditated innocent presumes:
(a) some kind of criminal context in which the terms are a contradiction
or
(b) some version of a different type of contradiction, on the order of "mediated immediacy"---but that you might experience if you were really into a television program, experienced it immediately, say.
you could see in choosing not to do a criminal act a premeditated innocence.
after thinking about it for a while, i decided to neglect neglecting.
but that's about the phrase.
can one be self-consciously unself-conscious?
sure.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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