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by IIAOPSW 1282 days ago
Its literally bullshit in the highly technical sense.

http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_...

The essence of bullshit is that it is different from a lie, for a liar respects the fact that their is a truth and knows what the truth is well enough to purposefully misrepresent it, whereas a bullshitter neither knows nor cares if what they are saying corresponds to anything in reality just so long as it makes the right impression.

>The point that troubles Wittgenstein is manifestly not that Pascal has made a mistake in her description of how she feels. Nor is it even that she has made a careless mistake. Her laxity, or her lack of care, is not a matter of having permitted an error to slip into her speech on account of some inadvertent or momentarily negligent lapse in the attention she was devoting to getting things right. The point is rather that, so far as Wittgenstein can see, Pascal offers a description of a certain state of affairs without genuinely submitting to the constraints which the endeavor to provide an accurate representation of reality imposes. Her fault is not that she fails to get things right, but that she is not even trying.