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Next, Clinton will have to make weasely pseudo-statement with lots of wiggle room.
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Bullshit, according to Frankfurt, is a pseudo-statement, one that looks like it’s saying something but actually says nothing.
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Bullshit, according to Frankfurt, is a pseudo-statement, one that looks like it’s saying something but actually says nothing.
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Term invented by British critic I. A. Richards in Science and Poetry. Poetry's emotive language yields pseudo-statements that are not subject to factual verification but useful in organizing or attitudes, while the language of science gives us statements that are either true or false. Source: Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms.
September 16, 2009