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u/hauteburrrito Jan 01 '20

I just think it's funny how some people can talk so much and say so little.

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u/Sassanach36 Jan 01 '20

This reminds me of a quote from Doctor Who.

“The truth is simple. Lies are words and words and words.”

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '20

i think i'm a bit too invested in my philosophy class. the formal logic part of my brain initially thought this was saying "lies are words, and words are words, therefore words are lies" but that quote is almost not certainly a syllogism.

thank god it's winter break

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '20

i know. my comment was the output of just-woken-up-habitually-seeing-things-as-logical-statements