"Everything happens for a reason" is trivially true
"Everything happens for a good reason" is trivially false

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@kokogiac what Dennett calls a "deepity".

the trick is to have two interpretations, one that's true and trivial, and another that's false and big-if-true. a motivated reasoner can then read it as a combination of the two interpretations: borrow the truthiness from A and the big-if-true from B.

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