It’s odd to me that you take a stance that I interpret as “saying something false was okay because it was convenient to do so”[1] given that I believe you dislike unneeded required context on “intelligent discourse” and that you once spent an impressive amount of time finding a way to never fully lie.
Obviously, you could have distributed a codebook and titled the article “Flagh guc Pontre” instead of “Death with Dignity”, but using a nonstandard mapping from symbols to ideas feels like giving up entirely on the concept of truth in communication.
Or the ol’ 4Chan creed “Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.”
It’s odd to me that you take a stance that I interpret as “saying something false was okay because it was convenient to do so”[1] given that I believe you dislike unneeded required context on “intelligent discourse” and that you once spent an impressive amount of time finding a way to never fully lie.
Obviously, you could have distributed a codebook and titled the article “Flagh guc Pontre” instead of “Death with Dignity”, but using a nonstandard mapping from symbols to ideas feels like giving up entirely on the concept of truth in communication.
Or the ol’ 4Chan creed “Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.”