I would like to coin a useful term, for which I believe there is no handy equivalent. 'Misimplicative truth'. A true proposition whose assertion will, with respect to an audience, generate more false than true implicatures (in a para-Gricean sense). 1/
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I entirely agree. Nevertheless, the Wikipedia entry for his life contains true sentences like this one, "In 1846, Brown and his business partner Simon Perkins moved to the ideologically progressive city of Springfield, Massachusetts." That is the sort of thing I have in mind.
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It's a good example of why you shouldn't just use Wikipedia, but it's not false that today's progressivism has roots in what was going on in Springfield, MA, in 1846. And that Brown, too, was specifically inspired by that.
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