Bullshit

In 1986, Harry Frankfurt wrote an essay, On Bullshit, which many years later, in 2005, evolved into a book. Since then, an article titled, Taking Bulls**t Seriously, by Paul Babbitt has debuted, arguing that “BS is not lying but instead an indifference to truth and a misrepresentation of the self -- and worse than lying.” By the statement being made, Babbitt is making a claim that he very well believes that bullshitting is in fact much worse than lying. He does a good job at supporting his argument through rhetoric, hypocrisy, and propaganda. Overall the article argues that bullshit is wrong for many reasons and in many ways such as, that bullshit is deceiving in more ways than one, it is a fabrication of yourself, and it “dumbs us down” as…

While the purpose of lying is to distract from the truth, bullshitting, as Harry Frankfurt describes in his essay On Bullshit, stands in its own class. Bullshit is a technique politicians and others use to sway the masses that disregards reality entirely. It occurs whenever someone makes a statement without considering “how things really are,” in Frankfurt’s terms. Throughout his political career, President Donald Trump has often ignored objective facts in favor of promoting bullshit, which his…

Summary 4: On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt Not many have ventured into finding a true definition for bullshit. Most people encounter bullshit on an almost daily basis. It comes in many shapes and forms and it is often employed loosely, with no general meaning (Frankfurt 1). The Oxford English Dictionary does however have an entry for bullshit. It also has many entries for bull and other similar words. One of the words that could be analogous to “bullshit” is the word, “Humbug”. In an essay…

Life is Not That Easy In the book “The Achievement Habit” by Roth, Bernard, the theme of chapter two “Reasons are Bullshit” is do not use reasons to justify someone 's behavior. The main point is to stop using reasons to get out of certain situations and to stop making those certain actions seem reasonable. Roth’s rhetorical appeals and arguments are effective because he explains how reason are simply excuses to hide what people 's priorities really are. Roth backs up his argument using…

Shannon Lee PHI 105 – Critical Thinking March 1, 2017 Exam 1 1. Bullshitting is more harmful than the truth and can have long-term effects. The person behind the bullshitting typically doesn’t care about what is true and what is false, he just wants to convince you that he is right. Sometimes, the person doing the bullshitting even starts to believe there own bullshit because they don’t have the insight of what the truth really is anymore. I think these are all important reasons behind why…

education system and thinks it’s broken. Fredrick and Lenny are brothers. Lenny 22 Lenny is one of those guys in the group you need. Lenny is Fredrick’s older brother. Lenny likes to bull shit a lot about how much stuff he can get and what he has done. In truth he is a sells person that doesn’t do well in it. Jane -19 Jane studies at university doing art. She is a bit crazy at times, Jane has dated Fredrick for 3 years they met college and got on ever since. She may seem to be happy but Jane…

The Boy and the Girl The two met because of a teacher. At first, they were not impressed. The girl was annoyed that she was moved away from her friends and the boy thought the girl was a whiny prissy bitch. It took the two a while to grow adjusted to one another. The boy came around first and thought he misjudged the girl, he started opening up about his previous life. This is what made the girl come around, this boy had lived such a life, and maybe it wasn’t so bad being away from her…

I read the book, No Bullshit Social Media, by Jason Falls and Erik Deckers. Their goal for this book is to not waste readers’ time and cut to the chase by focusing on only the important things readers need to know about social media. There are three key points in this book. The first one is that social media does not just gain friends and followers, but gains detractors. The second one is the social media does not just form communities, but forms brand power. And the third one is that social…

Picture Institutional Inaction, Bullshit, and Lying do not exist in a vacuum. Frustratingly, their effects are have ramifications for our understanding of truth far outside of the immediate 'truth value of X'. Indeed, when we make epistemic missteps, it can affect our entire worldview, degrade the assurances we have of knowledge, and provoke disaster far down the line. William Clifford showed us the danger of a boat captain ignoring good epistemic virtues, but what of an entire institution…

respect and concern for the truth in the writings that were being produced in his time. The concept he believed that was widely used yet poorly understood, was: bullshit. This led him to write an essay “On Bullshit” in 1986 which later turned into a book which was originally published in 2005. Frankfurt’s stand was that people are more ignorant of reality and that bullshit is becoming a significant…