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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Dec 2017

    Why do conservatives in debate often resort to asking "define X"? I've had that happen quite often. It's a peculiar tic.

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      2. Steven Bodzin, an actual live human being‏ @guacamayan 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        that's from Scientology

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      3. Steven Bodzin, an actual live human being‏ @guacamayan 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @guacamayan @HeerJeet

        or rather i've only experienced it when Scientologists have tried to recruitme

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      2. Kurt Busiek‏Verified account @KurtBusiek 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Because if they can get you chasing your tail supplying definitions, they’ve derailed the conversation while making you do all the work.

        1 reply 1 retweet 30 likes
      3. Andrew Wells‏ @wellsab 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @KurtBusiek @HeerJeet

        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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      2. Zev Samm  🏳️‍🌈 🐺 זאב‏ @DarknessRandom 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Define x is the crux of most arguments

        3 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @DarknessRandom

        Nope -- I don't think semantics is the root of argument, rather I'd say there are more substantive issues

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      2. Michele‏ @Number1TheGreen 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Is it a kissing cousin to fascism’s favorite tool of splitting off a word from its meaning?

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      3. No Saint Thomas‏ @bmcircle 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Number1TheGreen @HeerJeet

        Quite the opposite. It allows the other person to set the definitions. It also is important for syllogistic reasoning.

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      2. Myrha Cheval‏ @MyrhaCheval 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        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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      3. Dawn K.‏ @JulyJane 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @MyrhaCheval @HeerJeet

        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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