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the thing everyone in the room agreed to pretend to have opinions about.
means a subject that discussion, writing, or thought is organized around.
from from greek topos, meaning place — aristotle wrote a whole book called topica about the mental places you fetch arguments from.
greek roottopos literally means place or location
aristotle connectionhis topica was a manual for arguing any side
linguistics twisttopic-comment structure shapes entire grammars, like japanese
internet mutationtrending topics turned subjects into timed competitions