Thursday, July 31, 2008

More deceptions to come

Some additional thoughts on that...
This is deceptively nontrivial.
double negative will always get'ya

This is deceptively repulsive.
so it is any where from neutral to attractive

It's deceptively useless.
Tofu is deceptively stinky--it's stinky, but not really.

This is deceptively funny
so... it isn't funny?

This is deceptively vague.
is it a deception if it is not vauge?

He is deceptively cool.
well, so he's uncool then?

That's deceptively awful.
so... not awful, but still can be pretty bad.


So when x is deceptively y, y must at least be the case in appearance if not in other ways. and if it speaks of appearance, then contradiction is created.


Deceptively intuitive, unintuitive, and counter-intuitive.

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