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> Now what category would you assign UFOs? "Poorly-defined term, verging on motte-and-bailey." Anything in the sky someone can't identify is a UFO. Someone se
by msla 6y ago
> Now what category would you assign UFOs?
"Poorly-defined term, verging on motte-and-bailey."
Anything in the sky someone can't identify is a UFO. Someone sees Venus, doesn't know what it is, Venus is now a UFO. But because "UFO" is associated with "extraterrestrial aliens visiting Earth" saying that people see UFOs is taken for being equivalent to saying that people see extraterrestrial aliens.