philosophooey:
- Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on illogical reasoning rather than logical or even empirical methods.
- System of thought based on or involving such inquiry that turns out to be completely bogus.
- The critical analysis of fundamental assumptions or beliefs that is based on falsehoods rather than fact.
- The discipline that just misses comprising of logic, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology.
(That was fun - I like this new word. Thanks Dennis!)
-=Cece
On 9/17/07, Dennis Duquette <dennisdduquette@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
--- Kimberly Terrill <
kiter5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are just so many holes in this 'if yu use Eco
> FLuxx, you will be
> responsible for the child that ends up on Pot becuase
> playing Eco FLuxx
> taught them to play Stoner Fluxx and they then went out
> and purchased the
> substance" philosophey.
I read that last word as "philosophooey" initially (I type
faster than I think most the time, too). I like the
neologism "philosophooey" to summarize the troll's
position.
Dennis D Duquette
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Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums-and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen."
—Charles de Lint