A proposition that seems to be profound because it is
actually logically ill-formed. A deepity balances precariously between multiple interpretations, at least one of which is obvious and trivial and at least one of which would be
earth-shaking except that it is
false.
A: Love is just a word.
B: What a
bogus deepity. "Love" is just a word; any word is just a word. Love, whatever it is -- whether it is an emotion, a
state of being, an evolutionary adaptation, an illusion promoted by
romantic novelists -- it is not "just a word."