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Cliché – Idea which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or being irritating; Thought-terminating cliché – Commonly used phrase used to quell cognitive dissonance; Demagogue – Politician or orator who panders to fears and emotions of the public; Snowclone – Neologism for a type of cliché and phrasal template
The phrase credo ut intelligam is often associated with Anselm's other famous phrase fides quaerens intellectum [3] [2] ("faith seeking understanding"). [ 2 ] The phrase is based on a sentence of Augustine of Hippo ( crede ut intellegas , [ 4 ] lit. "believe so that you may understand") [ 5 ] [ 2 ] to relate faith and reason .
Credo quia absurdum is a Latin phrase that means "I believe because it is absurd", originally misattributed to Tertullian in his De Carne Christi.It is believed to be a paraphrasing of Tertullian's "prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum est" which means "it is completely credible because it is unsuitable", or "certum est, quia impossibile" which means "it is certain because it is impossible".
Facial expressions can even be a form of public information. If someone looks afraid — widened eyes, furrowed brows and a downturned mouth — it can signal to others to be on high alert and ...
"People are losing faith in the institutions, and in many, many places, they're going to reward the people that destroyed their faith," Clinton said. "I wouldn't bet against America. So far ...
The inscription was determined to be a statement of faith in Jesus Christ, written in Latin. The statement shows that the wearer "was clearly a devout Christian, which is absolutely unusual for ...
In fact, the Rota Fortunae became a prime example of a trite topos or meme for Tacitus, who mentions its rhetorical overuse in the Dialogus de oratoribus. Ptolemaic model of the spheres for Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn with epicycle, eccentric deferent and equant point. Georg von Peuerbach, Theoricae novae planetarum, 1474.
A thought-terminating cliché (also known as a semantic stop-sign, a thought-stopper, bumper sticker logic, or cliché thinking) is a form of loaded language, often passing as folk wisdom, intended to end an argument and quell cognitive dissonance.