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Oct 16, 2009 13:06

What bullshit essentially misrepresents is neither the state of affairs to which it refers nor the beliefs of the speaker concerning that state of affairs. Those are what lies misrepresent, by virtue of being false. [...] The bullshitter may not deceive us, or even intend to do so, either about the facts or about what he takes the facts to be. What ( Read more... )

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felis_ultharus October 16 2009, 18:20:42 UTC
Reminds me of Saul's entry on "Image" in the Doubter's Companion.

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