Low word-deed correlation stems from context neglect, not human untrustworthiness

Evidence

Saramago’s novel imagines a contagion of “white blindness” sweeping a city. Government quarantine, media silence, and the breakdown of communication structures organize the narrative. Its method is dense, comma-spliced third-person narration without speech-quote conventions, formally enacting the breakdown of speech-act discrimination. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1287 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Communication succeeds only through shared contextual beliefs that cannot be fully formalized; Saramago’s punctuation absence formally enacts the breakdown of speech-act discrimination — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1287

Broader Connections