‘Welcome to the Desert of the Real’: "In today's postmodern, market-oriented economy, many consumer commodities are presented in a manner that deprives them of their malignant properties… coffee without caffeine, cream without fat, and beer without alcohol...."
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"sine qua non" describes the thing left out (cc
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I'm also thinking of some Lakoffian metaphors that are close, but carry troubling connotations in their historical baggage. I name them below, with the Lakoffian in ALL CAPS:
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De-fanged or de-clawed (TEETH ARE POWER) Unleaded (POISON IS EFFECTIVENESS) Neutered, castrated, or un-manned (VIRILITY IS ESSENCE)
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I may need to use this as a song title…
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Seems like a better description of the class of things that Alanis Morrissette described in IRONIC than the word "ironic"
It's ten thousand spoons / when all you need is a knife / it is lacunescent — don't you think 
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Not sure but it was the theme of the most recent
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So you combined Lacuna Coil and Evanescence into a single concept? :D
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The murder mystery without murder seems more like a paradox maybe. But the car example is more of a conundrum to me, as in "If a car does not have an engine is it still a car?"
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Nothing springs to mind (aside from maybe 'vacuous'), but it does sound like a useful word.
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Pointless?
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The adjectival form of lacuna would be lacunose or maybe lacunal?
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