Use or Mention Abuse

Exploiting the common tendency to conflate the name of a thing with what that thing is.

An instance of using fluency or disfluency to lead thought down some path and not others.

E.g.: Calling certain institutions “Non-Governmental Organizations” to make the questions like “Are Non-Governmental Organizations connected to Governments?” harder to generate and to parse.

E.g.: “Love is just a word”. (No: the word “love” is just a word)

E.g.: “Meat-free burger”

Date

March 6, 2023

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