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Thought Terminating Cliché Commonly Phrase Passing Folk Wisdom Quell

Fallacy Thought-terminating cliché
Definition and Examples a commonly used phrase, sometimes passing as folk wisdom, used to quell cognitive dissonance. E.g. "drugs are bad"

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