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i dare you · 15 answers · 12mo

what's your favorite logical fallacy?

the one where i ask you a question with the implicit context that you may lose your job based on the answer

Shotgun argumentation. I don't need to present a coherent argument if I can shut you down for long enough for my nonsense opinion to travel across the Internet before you're even done writing your reply.

either begging the question, because the name sounds nothing like what it is and then some people get upset if you use it to mean the thing it does sound like

or the etymological fallacy where people try to insist that the information actually communicated by the use of a word, and its meaning, are different things

The fallacy fallacy. "Your argument contains a fallacy, therefore its conclusion is false".

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