Mendaciarium: Difference between revisions
Created page with "===English=== ====Noun=== ====Etymology==== From Latin ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mendax#Latin mendax]'' / ''mendac-'' “lying, deceitful, false,” source of English ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mendacity mendacity]'', + ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-arium -arium]'', a suffix used for physical places, repositories, or enclosures. # An collection of or conceptual room of falsehoods, lies, myths, misinformation, and confidently repeated errors. * By g..." |
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# An collection of or conceptual room of falsehoods, lies, myths, misinformation, and confidently repeated errors. | # An collection of or conceptual room of falsehoods, lies, myths, misinformation, and confidently repeated errors. | ||
* By gathering so many commonly accepted fallacies into a single volume, Tom Burnam's [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmisi00burn_0 The Dictionary of Misinformation] serves as a meticulously cataloged mendaciarium, opening the door to a conceptual room filled with history's most confidently repeated errors. | * By gathering so many commonly accepted fallacies into a single volume, Tom Burnam's [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmisi00burn_0 The Dictionary of Misinformation] serves as a meticulously cataloged mendaciarium, opening the door to a conceptual room filled with history's most confidently repeated errors. | ||
# A figurative repository of mendacity; a place, real or imagined, where durable untruths are gathered, preserved, or displayed. | # A figurative repository of mendacity; a place, real or imagined, where durable untruths are gathered, preserved, or displayed. | ||