Something every educated person should internalize is that a large fraction of statements by authority figures have no information content at all, but only seem like they must be important because ambiguous phrasing creates a false impression of profundity.
hm. If someone said "Love is just a word" I would assume he meant "love is, in some way, shallow or not truly real". That's a legitimate opinion someone might have, and you'd have to let them talk more to know why they hold it.
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Then perhaps they should say "love isn't truly a real thing; here's my reasoning about why", and not "love is just a word", which is a linguistic trap.
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This just doesn't seem true to the way people use language! Usually they don't know why exactly they think a thing, or even what exactly they think. But they have an experience (like, maybe love sucked for them) and they got an impression (like, maybe love is overrated), and
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