What a Load of Crap: Harry G. Frankfurt’s Theory of Bullshit and its Harm to Thoughtful Communication
I am argumentative. In the past, arguments would occupy my thoughts for stretches of time. It was inevitable that I generated convincing arguments for what I felt passionate about, even if I was ignorant of the subject at hand. I was recently enlightened to know that, in reading Harry G. Frankfurt’s On Bullshit, this kind of argumentation deemed me, in those moments, a Bullshitter.