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   From: jerry_friedman@yahoo.com   
      
   On 10/11/17 9:28 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > Here's an interesting article on neologisms, and it gives an example   
   > of one made up by C.S. Lewis -- Bulverism.   
   >   
   > It's not used much nowadays, though I've seen quite a lot of Bulverism   
   > on social media recently as people insist that a certain mass murderer   
   > must be called a terrorist rather than a lone wolf, not because he is   
   > one, but because they desperately *want* him to be one.   
   >   
   > Anyway, the article is here:   
   >   
   > https://t.co/g38Q5BI08q   
      
   Good work making it a self-demonstrating post.  You don't give any   
   argument that he wasn't a terrorist (although ISIS has claimed   
   responsibility--if you're thinking of the recent mass murder in Las   
   Vegas), just state that the people who insist on calling the murder a   
   terrorist have a reason for it.   
      
   (Of course we don't have to believe ISIS.  They might have reasons for   
   lying.  "Bulverism" is a fallacy, but we may well want to be   
   /suspicious/ of statements when there's a good chance the people who   
   make them are lying or mistaken.)   
      
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   Jerry Friedman   
      
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