While analytic feminist philosophers also unearth how power distorts theories of reality and knowledge, continental feminists, influenced by Foucault (1.2.2), operate with a different sense of power.
For our purposes here we can think of the first element as the contents of the attitude expressed by the speech act and it would not distort the theory too much to say they are propositions.
I am just a simple sort of man I try to write the best I can Then you come along with your Newsweek magazine And distort my theory with your glossy sheen Stealing from Unfit... what kind of man?!
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations had been directed against the view that a word's meaning is a thing for which it stands as a name (which is one of the misconceptions that had distorted Bentham's theory of the meaning of words).
"He did not want to see history distorted by conspiracy theories".
But the noise around Abedin was so often distorted by conspiracy theories that the public seemed to tune it out — until Weiner suddenly appeared back in the spotlight with the revelation of his most disturbing Twitter message yet: an illicit photo in which his son was a prop, sent privately to another woman.
Darwin's theory, stretched and distorted in various ways, was also called upon by the Nazis as a rationale for genocide, and has been a staple of forced sterilization campaigns and racist propaganda.
Otherwise, democracy in theory will be distorted towards plutocracy in practice.A Labour supporter was recently invited by the government to join one group considering an important area of policy.
According to The Telegraph, the opera's director, He Nian, told the Chinese newspaper Wen Hui Bao, "The particular performance style we choose is not important, but Marx's theories cannot be distorted".
In Citizens United the court overturned the earlier decision, which allowed limits on corporate spending in political contests under the theory that such spending distorted the information available to voters.
