discourse - talky talky
hermeneutics - what I mean
logic - why I'm right
apologetics - why you're wrong
fallacy - why you don't even know you're wrong
epistemology - how I know I'm right and you're wrong
existential - don't feel bad--everyone is wrong
postmodern - who cares if I'm right or wrong
systemic - your wrongness goes deep
neo- - you're as wrong as those old guys
crypto- - I'm the only one who knows your wrongness
paradoxical - it only looks like I'm wrong
hyper- - you'd be right if you could learn to state things paradoxically
grand meta-narrative - he thinks he's right about everything
paleo- - you're as wrong as that new-fangled stuff
phenomenal - I only seem wrong
transcendental - if anyone's right, I must be
false consciousness - deep down you know I'm right
subjugated/subaltern - they're right, but everyone says they're wrong
bourgeois - they pay good money to be right
proletariat - we're wrong now, but wait for the revolution!
deconstruction - w/ri(gh)t(e)
Platonism - I know the very Form of rightness
Thomism - it would appear that you are right
categorical imperative - if you're right, let's make it a universal law
problematize - I'll show you how wrong you really are
Cartesianism - cogito ergo rectitudo
ontological argument - I am so right that none greater can be conceived
epiphenomenon - this sentence is neither right nor wrong, as it is the product of a chemical reaction
post- - now we're finally right
eclectic - you are wrong in a lot of different ways
synthesis - you are so wrong that you are right
exegesis - I know what it means and I can discourse all day about it; cf. hermeneutics
presuppositional - I'm right and I won't even discuss it with you
-istic - you started with something good and made it really stupid
dialectic - I'm right, but then again, I may be wrong
Weltanschauung - how you see the world when your brain has been made into mush by German philosophy
deconstruction - if I grind you up I can show that even your molecules are wrong
Bayesian - I'll give you even money that I'm right
teleological - you've got everything backwards
a priori - we'll just assume that I am right
a posteriori - having seen who won, I can assure you I was on that side all the time
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