receiver, receiver’s relationship to sender), then we see that bullshit not only operates at multiple levels and for multiple possible motives, but in potentially very different kinds of meaning, semantic and pragmatic. Philosophers have recognized this multiplicity of bullshit. Reisch has referred to the bullshitter as running two conversations at once. He wrote: Frankfurt’s definition of bullshit crucially involves semantics insofar as bullshitters, as he defines them,
receiver, receiver’s relationship to sender), then we see that bullshit not only operates at multiple levels and for multiple possible motives, but in potentially very different kinds of meaning, semantic and pragmatic. Philosophers have recognized this multiplicity of bullshit. Reisch has referred to the bullshitter as running two conversations at once. He wrote: Frankfurt’s definition of bullshit crucially involves semantics insofar as bullshitters, as he defines them,
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