I too have an answer, that isn't one that the author of the blog would like. If you can't explain how you know something, the simplest hypothesis is that you d

I too have an answer, that isn't one that the author of the blog would like. If you can't explain how you know something, the simplest hypothesis is that you don't, in fact, know it after all. If you can't explain why you think you know a larger body of theory, what makes you prefer it to the alternatives, or why anyone else should, the most likely explanation is that it's malarkey. And if that extends to your entire field, you're probably in the humanities.