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Contextomy – On Quote Mining
Even though many of the links from this blog point to articles from it, I’m not particularly fond of quoting Wikipedia, but the following line from one of its articles caught my attention. “The practice of quoting out of context, sometimes referred to as “contextomy” or “quote mining”, is a logical fallacy and a type of false attribution in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning.” Perhaps some day Zemanta, the link plugin this blog uses, will offer other options like peer-reviewed journals for hot-linking. That the above definition of contextomy exists speaks directly to a growing problem where people feel free to misquote or misuse direct quotes from printed media, interviews, or other sources. In short, … Read entire article »
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