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62 relations: Academy, Acronym, Adjective, Alan Sokal, Anti-realism, Ballade (forme fixe), Barry Commoner, Bollocks, British English, Buzzword bingo, Chicken shit, Citizens Party (United States), Colloquialism, Confabulation, Daniel Kahneman, Deception, English language, Euphemism, Expletive attributive, Federal Communications Commission, Gerald Cohen, Harry Frankfurt, Holy cow, Humbug, Icelandic language, Interjection, Jimmy Carter, John B. Anderson, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marco Travaglio, Meaning (linguistics), Middle English, Natural language, Nature (journal), NBC, Nonsense, North American English, Not even wrong, Old French, On Bullshit, Oxford English Dictionary, Papal bull, Part of speech, Philosophy, Princeton University, Profanity, Ronald Reagan, Sacred cow (idiom), Silvio Berlusconi, Slang, ..., Sokal affair, South African English, T. S. Eliot, Tall tale, The New Yorker, The Sydney Morning Herald, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Truth, Twitter, United States presidential election, 1980, Waffle (speech), World War II. Expand index (12 more) »
Academy
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, higher learning, research, or honorary membership.
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Acronym
An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters (as in NATO or laser) and sometimes syllables (as in Benelux).
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Adjective
In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated) is a describing word, the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified.
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Alan Sokal
Alan David Sokal (born January 24, 1955) is a professor of mathematics at University College London and professor of physics at New York University.
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Anti-realism
In analytic philosophy, anti-realism is an epistemological position first articulated by British philosopher Michael Dummett.
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Ballade (forme fixe)
The ballade (not to be confused with the ballad) is a form of medieval and Renaissance French poetry as well as the corresponding musical chanson form.
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Barry Commoner
Barry Commoner (May 28, 1917 – September 30, 2012) was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician.
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Bollocks
"Bollocks" is a word of Middle English origin, meaning "testicles".
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British English
British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.
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Buzzword bingo
Buzzword bingo, also known as bullshit bingo, is a bingo-style game where participants prepare bingo cards with buzzwords and tick them off when they are uttered during an event, such as a meeting or speech.
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Chicken shit
"Chicken shit", or more commonly "chickenshit", is a slang term, usually regarded as vulgar.
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Citizens Party (United States)
The Citizens Party was a political party in the United States.
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Colloquialism
Everyday language, everyday speech, common parlance, informal language, colloquial language, general parlance, or vernacular (but this has other meanings too), is the most used variety of a language, which is usually employed in conversation or other communication in informal situations.
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Confabulation
In psychiatry, confabulation (verb: confabulate) is a disturbance of memory, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.
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Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (דניאל כהנמן; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. Smith).
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Deception
Deception is the act of propagating a belief that is not true, or is not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission).
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Euphemism
A euphemism is a generally innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant.
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Expletive attributive
An expletive attributive is an adjective or adverb (or adjectival or adverbial phrase) that does not contribute to the propositional meaning of a sentence, but is used to intensify its emotional force.
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Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.
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Gerald Cohen
Gerald Allan "Jerry" Cohen, FBA (14 April 1941 – 5 August 2009) was a Marxist political philosopher who held the positions of Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford.
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Harry Frankfurt
Harry Gordon Frankfurt (born May 29, 1929) is an American philosopher.
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Holy cow
Holy cow may refer to.
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Humbug
A humbug is a person or object that behaves in a deceptive or dishonest way, often as a hoax or in jest.
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Icelandic language
Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language, and the language of Iceland.
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Interjection
In linguistics, an interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling or reaction.
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
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John B. Anderson
John Bayard Anderson (February 15, 1922 – December 3, 2017) was a United States Congressman and presidential candidate from Illinois.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
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Marco Travaglio
Marco Travaglio (born 13 October 1964) is an Italian investigative journalist, writer and opinion leader, director of the independent journal Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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Meaning (linguistics)
In linguistics, meaning is the information or concepts that a sender intends to convey, or does convey, in communication with a receiver.
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Middle English
Middle English (ME) is collectively the varieties of the English language spoken after the Norman Conquest (1066) until the late 15th century; scholarly opinion varies but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period of 1150 to 1500.
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Natural language
In neuropsychology, linguistics, and the philosophy of language, a natural language or ordinary language is any language that has evolved naturally in humans through use and repetition without conscious planning or premeditation.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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Nonsense
Nonsense is a communication, via speech, writing, or any other symbolic system, that lacks any coherent meaning.
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North American English
North American English (NAmE, NAE) is the most generalized variety of the English language as spoken in the United States and Canada.
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Not even wrong
The phrase "not even wrong" describes an argument or explanation that purports to be scientific but is based on invalid reasoning or speculative premises that can neither be proven correct nor falsified.
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Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French: ancien français) was the language spoken in Northern France from the 8th century to the 14th century.
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On Bullshit
On Bullshit (2005), by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt, is an essay that presents a theory of bullshit that defines the concept and analyzes the applications of bullshit in the contexts of communication.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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Papal bull
A papal bull is a type of public decree, letters patent, or charter issued by a pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Part of speech
In traditional grammar, a part of speech (abbreviated form: PoS or POS) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) which have similar grammatical properties.
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Philosophy
Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
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Princeton University
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Profanity
Profanity is socially offensive language, which may also be called swear words, curse words, cuss words, bad language, strong language, offensive language, crude language, coarse language, foul language, bad words, oaths, blasphemous language, vulgar language, lewd language, choice words, or expletives.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
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Sacred cow (idiom)
Sacred cow is an idiom, a figurative reference to sacred cows in some religions.
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Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments.
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Slang
Slang is language (words, phrases, and usages) of an informal register that members of special groups like teenagers, musicians, or criminals favor (over a standard language) in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.
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Sokal affair
The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax,Derrida (1997) was a scholarly publishing sting perpetrated by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London.
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South African English
South African English (SAfrE, SAfrEng, SAE, en-ZA) is the set of English dialects native to South Africans.
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
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Tall tale
A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow is a best-selling book published in 2011 by Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate Daniel Kahneman.
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Truth
Truth is most often used to mean being in accord with fact or reality, or fidelity to an original or standard.
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
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United States presidential election, 1980
The United States presidential election of 1980 was the 49th quadrennial presidential election.
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Waffle (speech)
Waffle is language without meaning; blathering, babbling, droning.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit
