Plz help:
What’s the term for that thing (it’s named by like Dawkins or Hitchens and there was an SSC post on it?) where a phrase has two senses:
Sense 1 is true but meaningless and sense 2 is false but meaningful.
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motte-and-bailey maybe?
Yeah it def is a motte and Bailey, but
The word I’m looking for is a special case of a motte and Bailey where like it more frequently gets stuck in your own head rather than used as like an external argument
It also has a punny/portmanteau-y name IIRC
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A deepity?
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