The pair “tend to always” or “always tend to”. Sometimes they come off to me as a way to exploit the rhetorical force of “always” while committing only to a hedged “tend to”, in which case they can condense a two-step of terrific triviality into three words. There are likely other phrases that can provide plausibly deniable pseudo-certainty but I can’t think of any.
More generally, the Unix utility diction tries to pick out “frequently misused, bad or wordy diction”, which is a kinda related precedent.
When they come in the form of portentous pronouncements, Daniel Dennett calls these “deepities”; ambiguous expressions having one meaning which is trivially true but unimportant, and another that is obviously false but would be earth-shatteringly significant if it were true.
The pair “tend to always” or “always tend to”. Sometimes they come off to me as a way to exploit the rhetorical force of “always” while committing only to a hedged “tend to”, in which case they can condense a two-step of terrific triviality into three words. There are likely other phrases that can provide plausibly deniable pseudo-certainty but I can’t think of any.
More generally, the Unix utility diction tries to pick out “frequently misused, bad or wordy diction”, which is a kinda related precedent.
When they come in the form of portentous pronouncements, Daniel Dennett calls these “deepities”; ambiguous expressions having one meaning which is trivially true but unimportant, and another that is obviously false but would be earth-shatteringly significant if it were true.
Also related in cold reading is the Rainbow Ruse.