Weaponizing language is the dark art of lawyering, and the Republicans have invented language-nukes to try to confuse every non-issue they can. Wittgenstein, who this author misunderstands entirely, famously used a description of a court room to illustrate how all the most precise words in the world couldn’t describe what a jury trial is to someone who didn’t already know what a jury trial was. I’m sure he did that to needle all the asshole lawyers in the world who make the first ten pages of every contract “definitions”. When Blackmun said he knows it when he sees it, it was the most human thing anyone on the court probably ever said, though obviously that’s a big problem for a rule-of-law society. Protecting (or destroying) a class of people is a lot easier when you can name the class precisely.