Conflicting proverbs cannot alone generate solutions to problems. [causal]
"Traditionalists" maintain that this body of maxims is an authoritative repository of the objective wisdom of the culture and claim that counsellors properly trained in their craft are able to resolve problems entirely by resort to the body of maxims. … "Critics"-whom Winter refers to as adherents to "counselling lore semiotics" or "cls"-maintain that the system of contradictory proverbs cannot itself generate solutions and accordingly accuse Traditionalists of mystifying their profession in order to advance their claims to power and wealth. … "Wittgensteinians" also appear in the cast. They are summoned to point out that both Critics and Traditionalists assume that the legitimacy of
XREF: The Traditionalist/Critic/Wittgensteinian triad echoes Winter's earlier argument patterns about how judge-made law works, and resembles Kuhn's normal/revolutionary science distinction.
Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 824