Suppose I read Gayatri Spivak and come across her concept of sanctioned ignorance. What method do I use to determine if this is a 'good' concept or not? I think that internal consistency is a good place to start but I don't know other criteria to use.
Fuck. As an academic pointing out this VERY phenomenon in my work, i no longer get to take credit or coin a name for it. On the other hand, damn, what a useful concept lmao. There's just mountains of bad faith comparisons with zero material analysis out there.