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Fri 1 May, 2020 01:05 am
Some citizens also seem to have conflated asking a question with criticism.
Let’s take an inquiry panel convened to investigate a particular incident as an example. The panel will ask questions as part of the investigation process. Yet, are all members of the investigation panel subject matter experts?
What does "conflated" mean?
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It means to combine two idea into a single idea. In this case, that questioning and criticism are necessarily the same thing. (They are not necessarily the same thing, and conflate is usually used as an unspoken complaint that two ideas have been unfairly combined.)
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
It means to combine two idea into a single idea. In this case, that questioning and criticism are necessarily the same thing. (They are not necessarily the same thing, and conflate is usually used as an unspoken complaint that two ideas have been unfairly combined.)
Isn't the meaning of 'inflated' also implied, i.e. that the meanings of the two words are both inflated to mean more than they should?
E.g. the meanings of both 'questioning' and 'criticism' would have to be inflated in order for them to be 'conflated?'
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