that's from Scientology
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or rather i've only experienced it when Scientologists have tried to recruitme
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Because if they can get you chasing your tail supplying definitions, they’ve derailed the conversation while making you do all the work.
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When you break language, including longstanding consensus definitions, you destroy the capacity of language to establish and maintain reality or truth. Once truth is gone, then everything and nothing can be justified.
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Define x is the crux of most arguments
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Nope -- I don't think semantics is the root of argument, rather I'd say there are more substantive issues
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Is it a kissing cousin to fascism’s favorite tool of splitting off a word from its meaning?
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Quite the opposite. It allows the other person to set the definitions. It also is important for syllogistic reasoning.
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It's deflection. Trying to change the terms of the debate by making you defend the very premise of your hypothesis, and then they quibble about some tiny detail on what you asserted, and soon the debate itself is forgotten. Means they lost and are trying to redefine winning.
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I get a lot of “you can’t provide detailed definitions of types of guns & don’t know an ‘assault rifle’ isn’t a thing so you may not object to AR—15s” an awful lot.

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