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Harry Frankfurt[1] would probably suggest bullshit--as opposed to simply lying--as a proper description. [1] https://press.princeton.edu/titles/7929.html https
by metaphor 8y ago
Harry Frankfurt[1] would probably suggest bullshit--as opposed to simply lying--as a proper description.
[1] https://press.princeton.edu/titles/7929.html https://press.princeton.edu/titles/7929.html
- gshubert17 8y agoOr as Neal Stephenson in his novel Anathem defined: Bulshytt Speech (typically but not necessarily commercial or political) that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the impression that something has been said.