What would be a good equivalent of Occam's razor to capture conspiracy theory construction?
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"conspiracy theory" is poor terminology, I like this guy's thinking collativelearning.com/conspiracy%20t
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sorry, you're stuck with it. Fighting is it like 'ethical hackers' trying to make 'crackers' stick. Linguistic quixotics.
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oh I'm not proposing an alternate term - just that it's a boring slur rather than anything precise
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seems precise to me: the enabling premise is always collusion among a set of hidden conspirators, no?
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"The term 'conspiracy theory' if used logically...would be about as useful as the terms 'corruption allegation' or 'suspected crime'"
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by your logic, 'fruit' is not a useful term because it is not as precise as 'banana'
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no I'm saying "yellow-bellied shitfruit" is not as useful as banana ;)
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