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Bullshit

Bullshit (sometimes bullshite or bullcrap) is a common English expletive which may be shortened to the euphemism bull or the initialism B.S. In British English, "bollocks" is a comparable expletive. It is mostly a slang term and a profanity which means "nonsense", especially as a rebuke in response to communication or actions viewed as deceptive…

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In the philosophy of truth and rhetoric

As an object of psychological research

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Bullshit

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related to Bibliography · 37
Bullshit → August, Carus Publishing, Chicago, College English, Critic At Large, Eliot, Gary, George, Halifax, Harcourt, Harry, Harry Frankfurt's, Holt, Inventions, ISBN, Jim, Laura, Laura Penny's, March Hare, NJ
related to As an object of psychological research · 20
Bullshit → According, Although, Belfast, BSR, Bullshit Receptivity Scale, Deepak Chopra, Dr, Frankfurt's, Further, Gordon Pennycook, Hidden, Ig Nobel Prize, Indeed, Peace, Pennycook, Queen's University, The, University, Wake Forest University, Waterloo
related to Education and reasoning as immunization against bullshit · 12
Bullshit → Brandolini's, Building, Calling Bullshit, Carl Bergstrom, Data Reasoning, Digital World, Jevin West, Once, They, This, University, Washington
related to Assertions of fact · 10
Bullshit → Anderson, Barry Commoner, Carter, Citizens Party, Commoner's, During, Federal Communications Commission, NBC, On, Reagan
related to Etymology · 10
Bullshit → Although, American, An, Australian, British, Bull, Old French, South African English, The, World War II
related to Further reading · 9
Bullshit → Bergstrom, Calling, Carl, ISBN, Jevin, New York, OCLC, Random House, West
related to Harry Frankfurt's concept · 8
Bullshit → Frankfurt, Harry Frankfurt, He, In, Ludwig Wittgenstein's, On Bullshit, Princeton University, The
related to In everyday language · 8
Bullshit → Boston, English, In, It, Massachusetts, North American English, Outside, With
related to David Graeber's theory of bullshit work in the modern economy · 4
Bullshit → Anthropologist David Graeber's, Bullshit Jobs, He, Theory
related to External links · 4
Bullshit → Quotations, Wikiquote The, Wiktionary, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2

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Bullshitis aorder of magnitude bigger than what's needed to produce it0.90text
Bullshitrelated to As an object of psychological researchAlthough0.60section
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Bullshitrelated to As an object of psychological researchGordon Pennycook0.60section
Bullshitrelated to As an object of psychological researchUniversity0.60section
Bullshitrelated to As an object of psychological researchWaterloo0.60section
Bullshitrelated to As an object of psychological researchBullshit Receptivity Scale0.60section
Bullshitrelated to As an object of psychological researchBSR0.60section
Bullshitrelated to As an object of psychological researchDeepak Chopra0.60section
Bullshitrelated to As an object of psychological researchHidden0.60section
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Bullshitrelated to As an object of psychological researchPennycook0.60section

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