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Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior by roywiggins on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @08:11PM (#17770861)
It seems to me that the officially "bullshit" sentences are basically meaningless, rather than false. You can disagree about statements about how rivers wear things away; you can't really disagree with the bullshit sentences because they don't actually mean anything.
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Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior by spiderfarmer on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @09:39PM (#17771227)
Bullshit is defined as something meaningless or not true.
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Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior by stochastic_monk on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @09:47PM (#17771256)
You’re right, though I think there’s a lean in interpretation toward untrue. I felt my bullshit platitude detector go off a few times on the “normal” sentences, but the wacky sentences made it easy to know that wasn’t what was meant by bullshit.
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Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior by sitkack on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @10:11PM (#17771358)
You are bullshitting me, http://www5.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_...
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