Concept
novelty
2 writings
- innuendo is meaning manufactured at the address Innuendo tilts the listener's existing bias so that meaning is manufactured at the destination rather than transmitted from the source; the agreement of a cluster proves shared formation, not signal, and manufactured coupling dissolves the moment the bias changes.
- dead rhetoric is live assumption Arguments that win completely erase themselves, becoming unexamined ground from which subsequent reasoning operates. Dead rhetoric functions as live assumption — persuasion so successful it presents as self-evidence, shaping what seems obvious long after the argument has been forgotten.