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Originally Posted by willravel
A quick word for cognative dissonence: it basically means that people tend to want to fight for something they've believed in - but have gotten slack for - for a long time. I'm not sure that can be boiled down to counterintuative, but I do see your point. When buzz phrases geet overused, they tend to lose meaning.
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I just find it is used by people trying to sound clever. I can guarantee most of its uses on Internet fora are by those who don't know what it really means (on philosophical or epistemological basis) and really just mean "contradictory" or "counterintuitive".
Mr Mephisto