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It seems to me that the officially "bullshit" sentences are basically meaningless, rather than false. You can disagree about statements about how rivers wear th
by roywiggins 8y ago
It seems to me that the officially "bullshit" sentences are basically meaningless, rather than false. You can disagree about statements about how rivers wear things away; you can't really disagree with the bullshit sentences because they don't actually mean anything.
- spiderfarmer 8y agoBullshit is defined as something meaningless or not true.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoYou’re right, though I think there’s a lean in interpretation toward untrue. I felt my bullshit platitude detector go off a few times on the “normal” sentences, but the wacky sentences made it easy to know that wasn’t what was meant by bullshit.
- sitkack 8y agoYou are bullshitting me, http://www5.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf http://www5.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_...