I hoped you would cite a seminal work of Harry G Frankfurt "On bullshit". After reading that essay I started to use BS only in this technical meaning which is something along the lines of "using rhetoric to obfuscate the true intention behind the utterance without any regard for its truth value". I think it is very helpful in pinpointing what BS really is.
I hoped you would cite a seminal work of Harry G Frankfurt "On bullshit". After reading that essay I started to use BS only in this technical meaning which is something along the lines of "using rhetoric to obfuscate the true intention behind the utterance without any regard for its truth value". I think it is very helpful in pinpointing what BS really is.
I hoped you would cite a seminal work of Harry G Frankfurt "On bullshit". After reading that essay I started to use BS only in this technical meaning which is something along the lines of "using rhetoric to obfuscate the true intention behind the utterance without any regard for its truth value". I think it is very helpful in pinpointing what BS really is.