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by dszoboszlay 1159 days ago
> arbitrary addition to Coati, "also known as....the Brazilian aardvark"

But via citogenesis, the coati really became also known as the Brazilian aardvark. So the original claim is true, and this wasn't really citogenesis after all. More like self fulfilling prophecy.

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In linguistics a sentence that causes itself to be true is called performative. (The standard example being "we are at war", spoken by someone with the authority to declare war.)

That doesn't really fit here, but it's a similar idea.