Thought-terminating cliché
id:
thought-terminating-clich-207-17302188
title:
Thought-terminating cliché
text:
A thought-terminating cliché is a form of loaded language, often passing as folk wisdom, intended to end an argument and quell cognitive dissonance. Its function is to stop an argument from proceeding further, ending the debate with a cliché rather than a point. Some such clichés are not inherently terminating. They only become so when used to intentionally dismiss dissent or justify fallacious logic. The term was popularized by Robert Jay Lifton in his 1961 book Thought Reform and the Psycholog
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Commonly used phrase used to quell cognitive dissonance
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9
date created:
2003-10-17T19:26:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T07:09:26Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1413396","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1413396"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
15