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Let's say language is a tool to convey information regardless of truth or precision. You can disguise negative information giving it the appearance of a usual
by xwolfi 6y ago
Let's say language is a tool to convey information regardless of truth or precision.
You can disguise negative information giving it the appearance of a usual positive one (the fake discount).
It's more a property of information than of language, or rather a property of our information processor, so lazy it doesn't check every single piece 3 times but instead rely on habit and context
- red-montaigne 6y agoI'm thinking more of a writer sitting down and struggling to choose the correct word to identify a thought. I wouldn't say they're "conveying information." At that point they don't have information. I would say rather that they're attempting to refine the raw material of the flow of their thought-consciousness by using language. You can use words to assist that refinement. (I'm doing it now, for example.) But you can also use words to divert your thought stream away from potentially uncomfortable ideas, or someone else can do that to you.