{"id":30040,"date":"2020-08-08T18:38:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T23:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30040"},"modified":"2020-08-08T18:38:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T23:38:37","slug":"word-of-the-day-592","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/08\/08\/word-of-the-day-592\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Logorrhea<\/em>:<\/p>\n

In\u00a0psychology<\/a>,\u00a0logorrhea<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0logorrhoea<\/b>\u00a0(from\u00a0Ancient Greek<\/a>\u00a0\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2\u00a0logos<\/i>\u00a0“word” and \u1fe5\u03ad\u03c9\u00a0rheo<\/i>\u00a0“to flow”) is a\u00a0communication disorder<\/a>\u00a0that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness, which can cause incoherency. This disorder is also known as press speech. Logorrhea is sometimes classified as a\u00a0mental illness<\/a>, though it is more commonly classified as a symptom of mental illness or brain injury. This ailment is often reported as a symptom of\u00a0Wernicke’s aphasia<\/a>, where damage to the language processing center of the brain creates difficulty in self-centered speech. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This one came from a reader:<\/p>\n

Here’s a word of the day for you, Hue. A writer applied this to the crazed critics of Bill Gates who accused him of implanting microchips, etc.: logorrheic<\/p>\n

“He also became a target of the plague of misinformation afoot in the land, as logorrheic critics accused him of planning to inject microchips in vaccine recipients.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny. I was just reading a Scientific American<\/strong><\/em> article<\/a> on the topic of science vs clashing world views:<\/p>\n

In theory, resolving factual disputes should be relatively easy: Just present strong evidence, or evidence of a strong expert consensus. This approach succeeds most of the time, when the issue is, say, the atomic weight of hydrogen.<\/p>\n

But things don\u2019t work that way when scientific advice presents a picture that threatens someone\u2019s perceived interests or ideological worldview. In practice, it turns out that one\u2019s political, religious or ethnic identity quite effectively predicts one\u2019s willingness to accept expertise on any given politicized issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cMotivated reasoning<\/a>\u201d is what social scientists call the process of deciding what evidence to accept based on the conclusion one prefers. As I explain in my book, \u201cThe Truth About Denial<\/a>,\u201d this very human tendency applies to all kinds of facts about the physical world, economic history and current events. – Adrian Bardon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another piece of literature on people who bank on reality not having its vengeance on them. Personally, I try to avoid reality vengeance, as it tends to shorten lifetimes and makes me cranky,<\/p>\n

(h\/t CJ)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Logorrhea: In\u00a0psychology,\u00a0logorrhea\u00a0or\u00a0logorrhoea\u00a0(from\u00a0Ancient Greek\u00a0\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2\u00a0logos\u00a0“word” and \u1fe5\u03ad\u03c9\u00a0rheo\u00a0“to flow”) is a\u00a0communication disorder\u00a0that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness, which can cause incoherency. This disorder is also known as press speech. Logorrhea is sometimes classified as a\u00a0mental illness, though it is more commonly classified as a symptom of mental illness or brain injury. This ailment \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30056,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30040\/revisions\/30056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}