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Quoting out of context (sometimes referred to as contextomy or quote mining) is an informal fallacy in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning. [1] Context may be omitted intentionally or accidentally, thinking it to be non-essential.
One particular case of misattribution is the Matthew effect. A quotation is often attributed to someone more famous than the real author. This leads the quotation to be more famous, but the real author to be forgotten (see also: obliteration by incorporation and Churchillian Drift ).
Quote on a building of fashion designer Marlies Dekkers in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2019. 15 minutes of fame is short-lived media publicity or celebrity of an individual or phenomenon. The expression was inspired by a quotation misattributed to Andy Warhol : "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."
The claim: Actor Tim Allen said the Obamacare website cost more than the border wall. Actor Tim Allen is once again the subject of a misattributed quote that makes a false comparison between the ...
Viral Facebook posts quote Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as saying, "If English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for us." The claim is false. Fact check: Decades-old quote misattributed ...
Credit: The Other 98%. In the quote, Trump calls voters the "dumbest group of voters in the country." He continued, saying that they'd believe anything Fox broadcasts.
As an example, consider the quote, widely misattributed to Joseph Stalin: The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic. [3] [4] See also
"I'm the commander, see.I don't need to explain—I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."