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At first glance without a thorough read it appears to me to be a discourse on constructed meaning, relevant to the zeitgeist concept we might know as "truthines
by telesilla 9y ago
At first glance without a thorough read it appears to me to be a discourse on constructed meaning, relevant to the zeitgeist concept we might know as "truthiness". An easier read on the topic:
http://theconversation.com/truthiness-and-alternative-facts-meaning-is-a-moveable-feast-71900 http://theconversation.com/truthiness-and-alternative-facts-...
Pertinent text from the submitted article:
“But “glory” doesn’t mean “a nice knockdown argument,’” Alice objected.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
“it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
- pls2halp 9y agoI felt like the paper’s concept of a ‘Troll’s Truism’[1] would be particularly relevant to here. I also remember seeing a similarly structured paper on Scientism here. [1]“A Troll’s Truism is a mildly ambiguous statement by which an exciting falsehood may trade on a trivial truth.”
- Hasknewbie 9y agoSo it's what Daniel Dennett refers to as a 'deepity' then? Source: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deepity https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deepity
- Confusion 9y agohttps://xkcd.com/1860/ https://xkcd.com/1860/