Talk:Dissimulation

message: Could someone explain the cleanup tag and/or replace it with a better one? 129.185.75.9 19:52, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Was the above interchange insufficient, or is there some other explanation needed? Folajimi 20:47, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup?

message: I implemented some of the suggestions from earlier:
* replaced the opening with a plain-English definition
* scrapped the constructive/destructive dichotomy
* added a reference to pool hustling
Does that improve things?
As a note to the anon, please consider asking questions ~before~ you remove tags?
--Alynna 23:36, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the revisions; your efforts are greatly appreciated. This entry is the proverbial elephant in my living room... --Folajimi 00:53, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Changes made

message: The first example from computing is confusing and not sourced. Is it even accurate? There is no mention of dissimulation in the wikipedia entry on simulation (computing), and there is no term "dissimulation" in the Oxford Dictionary of Computing. I think this example should be removed. Astompa (talk) 15:26, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: August 2008

message: Dissimulation is a form of deception in which one conceals the truth.
What a brilliant opening sentence. It's no different to saying talking is a form of speaking in which one speaks words. In other words, X is a form of doing Z in which one does Z. What is this? Stupid-pedia?? 122.105.159.149 (talk) 11:27, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Opening sentence

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: As is, this article just looks like a dictionary entry, which violates WP:NOT. However, I do think that there is grounds for an article here, especially if there are philosophical uses of the term. Perhaps we could gather these uses in the talk page first and then add content back in the appropriate Wikipedia style once we have a sense of what the article should be about. 
I came to this page because I noticed the use of the word "dissimulation" in Nietzsche's On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense - However, this is a translation and I'm not equip to look into the German equivalents. If there is a philosophical history of this term that Nietzsche is invoking, which has been noted already in secondary research (so that this is not primary research), then it would be worth putting in.
Also noting the Francis Bacon quote that was here before the article was stubified: Francis Bacon has the following to say on the distinction between simulation and dissimulation, "Dissimulation, in the negative; when a man lets fall signs and arguments, that he is not, that he is... Simulation, in the affirmative; when a man industriously and expressly feigns and pretends to be, that he is not." The essay from which this comes can be found here.  
Others? Etherfire (talk) 16:33, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rescuing from Stub status 

message: After looking at this page, I've concluded that there is nothing here that isn't already at the wiktionary entry. I've changed it into a disambiguation page. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 00:41, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation