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legerdemain (en)

(noun) sleight of hand / (noun) a display of skill or adroitness

Both Flesh and Not: Essays
by David Foster Wallace

Both Flesh and Not: Essays
by David Foster Wallace

Both Flesh and Not: Essays
by David Foster Wallace


tired of the legerdemain of collapsing the word's neutral meaning--"preference, inclination"--into the pejorative one of "unfairness stemming from prejudice"

on the word "bias"

—p.308 Deciderization 2007--A Special Report (299) by David Foster Wallace
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