1. Discourse : Talky talky

2. Hermeneutics : What I mean

3. Logic : Why I’m right

4. Apologetics : Why you’re wrong

5. Fallacy : Why you don’t even know you’re wrong

6. Epistemology : How I know I’m right and you’re wrong

7. Existential : Don’t feel bad: everyone is wrong

8. Post-modern : Who cares if I’m right or wrong

9. Systemic : Your wrongness goes deep

10. Neo- : You’re as wrong as those old guys

11. Crypto- : I’m the only one who knows your wrongness

12. Paradoxical : It only looks like I’m wrong

13. Hyper- : You’d be right if you could learn to state things paradoxically

14. Grand meta-narrative : He thinks he’s right about everything

15. Paleo- : You’re as wrong as that new-fangled stuff

16. phenomenal : I only seem wrong

17. transcendental : If anyone’s right, I must be

18. false consciousness : Deep down you know I’m right

19. subjugated/subaltern : They’re right, but everyone says they’re wrong

20. bourgeois : They pay good money to be right

21. proletariat : We’re wrong now, but wait for the revolution!

22. deconstruction : w/ri(gh)t(e)

23. Platonism : I know the very Form of rightness

24. Thomism : 1. It would appear that you are right.

25. Categorical imperative : If you’re right, let’s make it a universal law

26. Problematize : I’ll show you how wrong you really are

27. Cartesianism : cogito ergo rectitudo

28. ontological argument : I am so right that none greater can be conceived

29. epiphenomenon : This sentence is neither right nor wrong, as it is the product of a chemical reaction.

30. post- : Now we’re finally right

31. eclectic : You are wrong in a lot of different ways

32. synthesis : You are so wrong that you are right

33. exegesis (cf. hermeneutics) : I know what it means and I can discourse all day about it

34. presuppositional : I’m right and I won’t even discuss it with you

35. -istic : You started with something good and made it really stupid

36. dialectic : I’m right, but then again, I may be wrong

37. weltanschauung : How you see the world when your brain has been made into mush by German philosophy

38. deconstruction : If I grind you up I can show that even your molecules are wrong

39. bayesian : I’ll give you even money that I’m right

40. teleological : You’ve got everything backwards

41. a priori : We’ll just assume that I am right

42. a posteriori : Having seen who won, I can assure you I was on that side all the time


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