What does "concatenation of reasoned-out thoughts" mean?
I was watching a commentary video about the overturning of ROE v WADE and its implications and one sentence happened to tickle my intellectual fancy. Source:
ROE/WADE and Why It Doesn't Matter at 5:34 mark."When it comes to wedge issues, people never arrive at their conclusions because of some long concatenation of reasoned-out thoughts. it's almost always an emotional response"
Cambridge Dictionary defines "concatenation" as "a series of events, ideas, or things that are connected". I'm not so certain that this definition of concatenation is applicable in the aforementioned sentence. I think it takes on a new meaning in the context but I'm not sure what that definition means. So what exactly is the sentence implying? Is it implying that people are not able to present a serious logical argument that everybody can amicably agree upon and resolve a wedge issue--that people use ad hominem/post hoc/post factum rationale to justify and defend their viewpoint which unfortunately prolongs the unresolved nature of wedge issues? What does "concatenation" mean within the context of the sentence?
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xbladefate25 Cambridge Dictionary defines "concatenation" as "a series of events, ideas, or things that are connected". As far as I can see, the Cambridge definition is right for this context. xbladefate25 people never arrive at their conclusions because of some long concatenation of reasoned-out thoughts.
- xbladefate25 Cambridge Dictionary defines "concatenation" as "a series of events, ideas, or things that are connected".
- As far as I can see, the Cambridge definition is right for this context.
- xbladefate25 people never arrive at their conclusions because of some long concatenation of reasoned-out thoughts.
- concatenation: series, chain, line P, therefore Q, therefore R, therefore S, therefore T, ...
- Or, expressed a little differently: If P then Q, and if Q then R, and if R then S, and if S then T, ...
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xbladefate25Cambridge Dictionary defines "concatenation" as "a series of events, ideas, or things that are connected".
As far as I can see, the Cambridge definition is right for this context.
xbladefate25people never arrive at their conclusions because of some long concatenation of reasoned-out thoughts.
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0xbladefate25I'm not so certain that this definition of concatenation is applicable in the aforementioned sentence.
Look at "chain of reasoning" and "chain of thought". Come to think of it, that's what the writer should have done instead of whipping up a long way of saying it.
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