Plausible Deniability
- A process whereby one first abstracts the directness and origin of a command decision in an effort to deviously cover one’s ass.
- A state where one has prevented one’s self from officially learning what one already knows in order to later retain the precious ability to plead ignorance.
- Pulling a Nixon.
- Pulling a Bush/Cheney
- Pulling a Chretien/Martin.
plau·si·ble de·nia·bili·ty
Etymology: “a political doctrine originally developed in the United States of America in the 1950s and applied to operations by the then newly-formed Central Intelligence Agency.” — Wikipedia
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Pragmatism
- Belief or theory that legitimizes the moral rationale of an act based on the expedient consequences the practice may produce. (See under morally bankrupt)
- Prime axiom of indifferent and expedient social policy; "Is perhaps the only peculiarly American school of philosophy."
prag·ma·tism
Derived Forms: pragmatist, n. | pragmatistic adj.
Etymology: Termed by Charles Sanders Peirce in an effort to distinguish himself from, the likewise mentally-unstable, William James.
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