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en-wikipedia-org-7365		Thought-terminating cliché - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2214	250	70	A thought-terminating cliché (also known as a semantic stop-sign, a thought-stopper, bumper sticker logic, or cliché thinking) is a form of loaded language, commonly used to quell cognitive dissonance.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Depending on context in which a phrase (or cliché) is used, it may actually be valid and not qualify as thought-terminating; it does qualify as such when its application intends to dismiss dissent or justify fallacious logic.[7] Its only function is to stop an argument from proceeding further, in other words "end the debate with a cliché... In the Southern California law review, Volume 51, Part 1, it describes the use of such clichés as "to capture the vehicles of thought and communication; 'Doctrine over reality' (which includes the rewriting of history and reinterpretation of one's past)" and as a property of 'ideological totalists'.[10] Kathleen Taylor suggests in a case study that the words that remain as a result of the diminishing of the English language are ideologically loaded, and are "clear examples of Lifton's thought-terminating clichés".[9][18]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7365.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7365.txt