Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
by stult on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @06:19AM
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The study doesn't make any claims about the validity of the "actually" profound statements, because the validity or lack thereof is irrelevant to the study. Those statements simply have actual semantic content, as opposed to the meaningless bullshit statements, which don't communicate anything and therefore can't even be assessed for their validity.
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Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
by foldr on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @06:21AM
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Right, but if you ask people whether a sentence is 'profound' or 'bullshit', then it's pretty unclear which of those two categories you should put a sentence in if it makes sense but is also clearly false. Such a sentence doesn't really fall into either category. "The moon is made of cheese" has semantic content, but it's not very profound.