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Sort of sounds like the title to a horror movie, and in some respects, it is. It is a horror of poor logic and argumentation…though perhaps what makes it worse is that many do it on purpose. The idea of an argument of a straw man goes back to 1886 according to Marriam-Webster, though…
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“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”
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“relatively insensitive to differences in musical pitch.” That is how Merriam-Webster defines this term. Of course, we know it means more in current cultural usage. It’s connected though…so, just like usage in regards to music deals with insensitivity, so to in current parlance we find insensitivity to a phrase or words used. One…