Truthiness
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Truthiness is a "truth" that a person claims to know intuitively "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.
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See also
- Confabulation
- Doublethink
- Factoid
- Newspeak
- Noble lie
- On Bullshit – an essay by Harry Frankfurt, originally written in 1986 but published as a book on January 10, 2005, 9 months before Colbert coined Truthiness.
- Rathergate
- Rhetoric
- Verisimilitude
- Wikiality – another word coined by Colbert
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