Is “folklore mindset” nihilist if you believe that stories are valuable, but are still trying to figure out what stories are for?
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Ah so "told for true" is a sort of term of art for an assumed folkloric consensus that everybody politely pretends to buy? No that does not sound nihilist to me. More like a sort of "don't think too much" faith.
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Is that in reference to participating in "told for true" stories themselves, or to taking an ethnomethodologically emic stance toward said "told for true" items. The former seems non-nihilistic. The latter maybe non-nihilistic at a meta-level, and mostly pragmatic at story level
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