@danieldennett Surely you can’t be serious. http://youtu.be/0A5t5_O8hdA?t=7s …
I heard three "surely" alarms just today. What's that? See this.https://medium.com/science-and-technology/83dacb1fe14c …
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@danieldennett I've found 'clearly' and 'obviously' also to be worth paying close attention to for similar reasons. What do you think?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@danieldennett what about using it ironically e.g., "surely X wouldn't do something so immoral b/c we all assume X is moral - yet X does it" -
@danieldennett actually you could write an app that literally sounds an alarm on your iPhone when it discovers a questionable "surely". - Show replies
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@danieldennett Oh dear, I was guilty of that at university. It was a pet hate of one of my professors.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@danieldennett I heard three "surely" alarms just today. What's that? See this.* https://medium.com/science-and-technology/83dacb1fe14c … … *But note the last paragraph!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@danieldennett what about your own use of 'clearly' in that excerpt? Same alarm?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@danieldennett surely everybody agrees on that.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@danieldennett I always used to tell my pupils to find the points in an argument where the word "obviously" is reached for, & probe there...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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