They think that what is not immediately intelligible to them is unintelligible, period, or perhaps even a product of willful obfuscation.
The Australian positivist, David Stove, somewhere takes umbrage at a passage from Heidegger and pronounces it gibberish, when the passage is not gibberish at all. The miserable Stove, unwilling to to do his homework, and with no understanding of Heidegger's intellectual antecedents, dismisses as gibberish what is not immediately intelligible to his shallow positivist pate. He is a trenchant polemicist in some of his writing, so I am simply responding in kind.
I need to find that passage.
But let me say something good about old Stove: he was one formidable opponent of the scourge of political correctness.
There are some interesting materials for and against the curmudgeon in my Stove category.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum? De mortuis bonum et malum.
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