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[aubreymcfate]

I don't know if there's a term for the actual plot device (really putting the Masters degree in English to good use), but I have a circle of friends that has a name for a similar application in arguments: The Matrix argument. Basically, we say that we've won an argument whenever the other person has to resort to talking about how you can't definitively prove that they're wrong because we can't be certain that the world as we sense it is real and maybe all our senses lie to us and/or there might be an alternative universe where what they are saying is true. I personally think that it's a pretty platonically valid point, but in any discussion that doesn't have to do with metaphysics or platonic epistemology, I can see how it is pretty much an admission of defeat.

Galopogos got the word I was looking for - retcon. Thanks!

lol btw you're a masters in English? I'm a BA in English and currently getting my MFA in fiction. I was going to get my masters but decided I was over writing essays (at least in a school setting - I still like to write non-fiction) when what I really want to do is write stories. Artsy fartsy TL;DR'ers unite!

[surviva316]

Galopogos got the word I was looking for - retcon. Thanks!

lol btw you're a masters in English? I'm a BA in English and currently getting my MFA in fiction. I was going to get my masters but decided I was over writing essays (at least in a school setting - I still like to write non-fiction) when what I really want to do is write stories. Artsy fartsy TL;DR'ers unite!

Incidentally, I have my MFA in Fiction from a school in NYC.

[aubreymcfate]

Incidentally, I have my MFA in Fiction from a school in NYC.

May I ask which? You can PM me instead if you want. I ask because I go to school in the city, so I'm super curious.