"and probably most people would agree with me about one of them—in each case"... So in what sense are these books overrated?https://twitter.com/prospect_uk/status/892419656455081984 …
Okay, because I didn't spell this out... It's odd to say most people agree that the book you think is the most overrated is overrated.
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Odd because usually something that is overrated isn't thought by most people to be overrated (because it wouldn't be overrated if it were!).
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I'm aware there is wriggle room here, but it's going to amount to the claim that x is overrated by those who rate it, and there are a lot...
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of those people. Well yes, but we're talking here about the *most* overrated books, and it remains implausible to suppose that the *most*...
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overrated books are thought by a majority to be overrated. What about bloody Harry Potter, for example!?
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Mainly, though, I'm not being entirely serious! This is Twitter. I'm only very very rarely being entirely serious. The end.
#deepbreath
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But it's not - that's an erroneous argument. I understand what you want to say, but there's no contradiction here. /1
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I'm aware there's not a strict logical contradiction! It's why I'm saying "It's odd", there's "wriggle room", etc! It is odd!
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