Deepity
something that sounds profound but intellectually hollow.
usually has the following characteristics. 1. true but trivial 2. false but logically ill informed. 3. usually a use-mention error or (ume)
made famous by daniel dennett.
“love is just a word” is a deepity.
“g-d is the g-d beyond g-ds.” is a deepity.
he just said a deepity.
what a deepity.
1 more definition
a proposition that seems to be profound because it is actually logically ill-formed. a deepity balances precariously between multiple interpretations, at least one of which is obvious and trivial and at least one of which would be earth-shaking except that it is false.
a: love is just a word.
b: what a bogus deepity. “love” is just a word; any word is just a word. love, whatever it is — whether it is an emotion, a state of being, an evolutionary adaptation, an illusion promoted by romantic novelists — it is not “just a word.”
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