Felicitous

well chosen or suited to the circumstances; appropriate secondary meaning: pleasing or fortunate

Baudrillard Warned Us

Baudrillard Warned Us

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"At any rate, better a despairing analysis in felicitous language than an optimistic analysis in an infelicitous language that is maddeningly tedious and demoralizingly platitudinous, as is most often the case."
- The Perfect Crime

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MobiQuotes

MobiQuotes

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George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com: Guessing and Its Limits

ABSTRACT Guessing is the thesis that, roughly put, you may believe something iff it is among the most probable answers to a salient question. The thesis is motivated by observed features of felicitous belief reports when agents confront a que...

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