Warrigal comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

10 Post author: CronoDAS 16 February 2010 08:29AM

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Comment author: RobinZ 17 February 2010 03:29:36PM 3 points [-]

its metaphors have the ring of truthiness (in a non-pejorative sense) about them

Couldn't that be more succinctly stated as "its metaphors have the ring of truth about them"?

Comment author: CronoDAS 18 February 2010 11:18:15PM 3 points [-]

Maybe, but a lot of Freud's metaphors had/have a similar ring.

Comment author: RobinZ 18 February 2010 11:33:56PM 0 points [-]

Fair enough!