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George Bernard Shaw feared that the Victorian tendency to see Shakespeare as immune from criticism verged on "Bardolatry," warning that "it is false admiration to worship him as an infallible demi-god".
But the counterexamples to the thesis in §§4 5 show that it is false, even in its most plausible form.
The most interesting aspect of the novel's origin may be the evolution of English culture's answers to the question of verisimilitude: should a strange story be accepted as true because it is strange, or should its strangeness be taken as proof that it is false?
Indeed, existing data suggest that it is false.
The F.B.I. director has said privately that it is false.
It is not so much that it is false as that it lacks meaning.
But if we accept the law of excluded middle, this leaves us only one option - namely, to claim that it is false.
This "Kuznets Curve" had been accepted by most parts of the economics profession until Piketty and his collaborators produced the evidence that it is false.
The White House has stood by his accusation, even in the face of conclusions from all corners of the government that it is false.
He knows full well that it is false logic to argue that because some anti-Zionists are anti-semitic therefore anti-Zionism is anti-semitic.
"The essence of bullshit," argues the philosopher Harry Frankfurt in his 2005 book of the same name, "is not that it is false but that it is phony".
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CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com