• JackbyDev
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    11 year ago

    No, that is literally a dictionary definition, not a colloquialism. A colloquialism would necessarily be informal and descriptive, not prescriptive.

    You said it right here.

    • CheezyWeezle
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      -11 year ago

      Go back to grade school and learn reading comprehension again, please. Just because I said that colloquialisms are descriptive, does not mean that I said that all dictionary definitions are prescriptive. Get your red herring straw man bullshit out of here. You clearly lost the argument if you are at this point.

          • JackbyDev
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            01 year ago

            I’m not saying those are wrong, I’m saying those are the colloquial usage.

            • CheezyWeezle
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              11 year ago

              And I’m saying YOUR usage is the colloquial usage. Just look at the very source of the term, Leon Festinger’s “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance” from 1957. here is a link

              Chapter 1, page 3.

              In short, I am proposing that dissonance, that is, the existence of nonfitting relations among cognitions, is a motivating factor in it’s own right. By the term cognition, here and in the remainder of the book, I mean any knowledge, opinion, or belief about the environment, about oneself, or about one’s behavior. Cognitive dissonance can be seen as an antecedent condition which leads to activity oriented toward dissonance reduction just as hunger leads to activity oriented toward hunger reduction.

              He makes it clear that cognitive dissonance is the status of holding incongruous beliefs, NOT the status of discomfort. He states that cognitive dissonance CAUSES discomfort, and that people tend to seek to resolve that discomfort, but cognitive dissonance is not the discomfort itself. It is “the existence of nonfitting relations among cognitions”.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                I cannot upvote your comments with insults but thank you (both) for this thread, especially for adding links and the meta layer that comes with the emotions.

              • JackbyDev
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                01 year ago

                The comparison to hunger makes it clear to me. It isn’t being compared to the state of having an empty stomach.

                • CheezyWeezle
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                  01 year ago

                  Oh, I see, you’re fucking brain dead. Now this whole conversation makes sense. You literally cannot admit you are clearly wrong. Please go touch grass, you are pathetic.

                  • JackbyDev
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                    01 year ago

                    I’ll do it after I eat lunch because of the feeling of hunger, not the state of having an empty stomach.