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.
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.