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realcaseyrollins ✝️ (realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 07:23:29 JST realcaseyrollins ✝️
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What's the term for sayings like this?

I find them irksome but don't know what they're called. People use them without care for whether or not they are true or make sense or not, they sound vaguely like something #Yoda would say so people assume the speaker is smart.

RT: https://mstdn.social/users/Strandjunker/statuses/115686048166844150
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  If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.
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  realcaseyrollins ✝️ (realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 13:08:48 JST realcaseyrollins ✝️
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  @trendytoots @midway @trendytoots Hmm. Rather broad but I guess this would count as sophistry.
  
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  midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 13:08:49 JST midway
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  I call it sophistry.
  
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  MandyJane (mandyjane@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 13:12:09 JST MandyJane
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  @realcaseyrollins @trendytoots Deepity?
  
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  realcaseyrollins ✝️ (realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 13:15:54 JST realcaseyrollins ✝️
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  @trendytoots @MandyJane @trendytoots Hmm...if I go with #SpencerGreenberg's definition of "deepity" (see here: https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/09/deepities-and-deepifuls/ ), what I'm thinking of is actually two deepities conjugated to create an either "therefore" statement, or an "if-then" statement.
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    A “deepity” (a term first used by Daniel Dennett) is an ambiguous statement with two meanings: 1. one is profound (but probably false or nonsense) 2. the other meaning is trivial or obv…
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  midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Dec-2025 01:56:14 JST midway
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  Yeah, well, I've seen this broad before online....she's a sophist. :)
  
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