woodside comments on Signalling fallacies: Implication vs. Inference - Less Wrong

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Comment author: woodside 15 November 2012 10:42:52AM *  1 point [-]

To me this just seems like a disconnect between the way language is parsed by the speaker and the listener. When I hear somebody say "Atlas Shrugged is the greatest book ever written" I don't take it as the speaker's literal belief, because almost nobody means such a statement in that way.