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>cannot have even a basic conversation about Christianity without being infinitely recursive
In many cases, this is a response and strategy in counterpoise to dishonesty, hostility, smuggled premises, ulterior motives, mob mentality, and various other tactics and milieus that render a straightforward though necessarily-incomplete response untenable as a move in the language-games being played
It is however true that he has not always been honest where honesty was warranted, and has himself sometimes resorted to playing games rather than openly accepting fault or error or gaps in his own understanding, and going a step further but at an oblique angle, has sometimes been tricked into accepting fault based on emotional appeal when he should not have
I'm tired of all discourse being some degree of pic related
>Laffemas had promised the minister that he would torment him so effectively that he would extract almost whatever he wished to know, and that with little difficulty he would find the means to put him on trial in the same manner of the cardinal [Richelieu], who, according to what I have heard from his friends, had been accustomed to say that with two lines of a man's handwriting, the most innocent could be put on trial; because one could adjust the matter so well in these affairs, that one could easily find what one wishes to.
—Françoise de Motteville, Memoires, pour servir a l'histoire d'Anne d'Autriche: epouse de Louis XIII., roi de France (1723)