His quarrel was with the nature of language itself: he was not willing to accept the intentional elisions that are entailed in the pro cess of expressing thought and experience in discernible signs. He regretted the linguistic mandate of reducing a complex world to much simpler sentences. … In his prose Knight responded to this problem by adopting a relentlessly paradoxical style that drew attention to its own elisions in order to gesture toward truths that resisted linguistic reduction. Needless to say, this approach remained uncommon within the economics profession.

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, loc. 126