In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.
Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.
Memeticists have to give empirical evidence to support the claim that, in the micro-processes of cultural transmission, elements of culture inherit all or nearly all their relevant properties from other elements of culture that they replicate.
For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions.
Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)