lessdazed comments on Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lessdazed 30 March 2011 10:00:31AM 1 point [-]

It is similar to the word "extremist", the technical definition is rarely only what people mean to invoke, and it's acquiring further connotations.

Losing precise meaning is the way to newspeak, and it distresses me. It is sometimes the result of being uncomfortable with or incapable of discussing specific facts, which is harder than the inside view.