Been thinking a lot about the various efforts at formalizing metaphysics and how misguided it all seems, we go around using a lot of highly abstract concepts which don't really stand up to close scrutiny, but trying to replace them with better defined ones that lead to immediately obvious contradictions just seems like a mistake, driven by esthetic preference, no doubt. Some of these concepts are very interesting and get a lot of use, say, meaning, belief, action, others less so, event, property, relation, but it's not clear they cause much in the way of practical problems and to the extent they do it doesn't seem like replacing them with clearly delimited but obviously broken versions of themselves is really the way to go, just seems like bad engineering. The more I think about it, the more I wish Austin hadn't died so young.