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- Lesta Nediam LNC2016-09-06 0710 +Smedley Butler
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- +Smedley Butler __ Howdy, cheers for your question. A "literalist" can be described with some examples.
- A "literalist" would be someone who can be shown something that is egg-shaped but unless it is precisely egg-shaped (as the literalist understands it) then it is not recognised as being egg-shaped.
- There may be two identical images presented but from slightly different angles. A "literalist" is someone who would be unable to recognise them as being the same (because the "angle" is different).
- It is not an uncommon trait for a "literalist" to accept as true anything they recognise as coming from an "official" source. For example - if a detail is found on Wikipedia or reported in a newspaper - it is accepted as true - _even if the detail is obviously absurd and in error_.
- You would need to "prove" to the satisfaction of the "literalist" that the detail was incorrect before even that which is obviously absurd could be accepted as an "error".
- If you tell a "literalist" that you don't drink alcohol but find yourself in a social situation where it is more complaisant to have a sip of alcohol than not (such as when presenting a toast to the owner of a winery) - the "literalist" would be unable to reconcile this behavioural disparity and conclude you must have lied about not drinking alcohol.
- _And so on and so forth_.
- Generally speaking, "literalists" require even the simplest and most self-evident of things to be painstakingly explained to them.
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