About: Poe's Law   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Poe's law states that there is no parody so satirical that it will not be mistaken for sincere belief and no metaphor or use of figurative language so obvious that it will not be mistaken for a literal belief.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Poe's Law
  • Poe's law
rdfs:comment
  • Poe's law states that there is no parody so satirical that it will not be mistaken for sincere belief and no metaphor or use of figurative language so obvious that it will not be mistaken for a literal belief.
  • Poe's Law is the rule that it's difficult or impossible to distinguish between parodies/satires of religious fundamentalism or other extreme views and their genuine proponents. Both appear equally delusional.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • Poe's law states that there is no parody so satirical that it will not be mistaken for sincere belief and no metaphor or use of figurative language so obvious that it will not be mistaken for a literal belief.
  • Poe's Law is the rule that it's difficult or impossible to distinguish between parodies/satires of religious fundamentalism or other extreme views and their genuine proponents. Both appear equally delusional.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software