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    1. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 29 Aug 2019
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      Another trick is to disambiguate ambiguously used pronouns; "we" is commonly abused, and trying to replace it with the actual group that is meant can profoundly clarify the underlying meaning or lack of meaning in a statement.

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    2. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 29 Aug 2019
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      Going through transcripts of political speeches, especially of politicians you like, and rewriting them to eliminate the verb "to be", to eliminate all the "we"s, etc., often renders most of a speech entirely and obviously meaningless. (The exercise can be initially shocking.)

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    3. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 29 Aug 2019
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      Daniel Dennett has written convincingly about a phenomenon that he calls the "deepity", the use of a phrase that is trivial when read one way and meaningless or false when read another, to create an illusion of profundity. Example deepity: "Love is just a word."

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    4. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 29 Aug 2019
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      (Read one way, it's trivial, as "Love" is indeed a word. Read another way, it seems to indicate that love isn't a real phenomenon, which is clearly false, but the fact that it is true when read in the other way can lead to accidental belief that the other reading is meaningful.)

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    5. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 29 Aug 2019
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      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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    6. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 29 Aug 2019
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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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    7. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 30 Aug 2019
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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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    8. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 30 Aug 2019
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      they want to convey that impression of life to you and make you have *roughly* that sense of things as well. "Love is just a word" seems like a perfectly good way to gesture in a direction like that. It's not an argument. But it's only very rarely that arguments are possible.

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    9. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 30 Aug 2019
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      It's a terrible form of communication even if it's common, because people often *think* they share some sort of common information after exchanging such phrases even though they've conveyed almost nothing at all.

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    10. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 30 Aug 2019
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      Don't you ever think associationally? This reminds me of that? Cluster thinking? That's how metaphor & rhetoric works. Doesn't follow syllogistic logic, does convey *some* info, and (importantly) is actually possible for the majority of situations where you do not have

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      Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 30 Aug 2019
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      the info necessary to form a logically true statement. About most situations I *cannot* make a complete sentence that I can promise will be even close to correct. Not enough data points. I'm still perceiving and classifying and associating though.

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        2. Perry E. Metzger‏ @perrymetzger 30 Aug 2019
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          But how is this made better by using linguistically deceptive phrasings? Unless your goal is to make it seem like you already know more than you do? Again, often people will deny that unpackings of such phrases are true even if they claim the phrases are true. Red flag, that.

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        3. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 30 Aug 2019
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          I truly don't see the deception. "Love is just a word" = "love is like those other things that are "just words", i.e. empty verbiage".

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