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I 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 Scientis
by pls2halp 9y ago
I 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