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Really? Show me.
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I'm quoting two slur words; I am not using either. Here's a primer if you really don't understand:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction …
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If you really want to get academic about this Henry you should either read John Austin's How to Do Things With Words or just shut up about this topic Probably both honestly
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
petition to re-define the use-mention fallacy to refer to "i didn't *use* [slur], i only mentioned it!"
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
fun facts, the above tweet commits the use-mention fallacy, but also nobody cares because in normal speech everyone can easily parse use-mention fallacies
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Replying to @perdricof @HenryTarquin and
Note that Derrida told John Searle he found the concept of the "use-mention fallacy" "tiresome" Not false or invalid, just tiresome
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Not that language is *simpler* than the concept of the fallacy implies but it's *more complicated* - there are many different levels of "saying a word" that have different meaning and different impact based on when and how and where you say it, and who says it to whom
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We all know this and we all navigate it every day, and to try to compress it all down into one simplistic binary is tiresome It's a game people play to tell us when we are and aren't allowed to use our brain and read beyond the surface meaning of an utterance
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
**very john austin voice** only a knavish sort would pretend that illocution is the essence of all conversation, when in fact the vast majority of human language is transacted at the perlocutionary level
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