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Please try to be civil - accusing people of lying to win an argument is bad faith and doesn't belong on HN. You may also note that having a "word for that alre

Please try to be civil - accusing people of lying to win an argument is bad faith and doesn't belong on HN. You may also note that having a "word for that already" is also called a "synonym", and we don't accuse people of bait and switch, misrepresentation, being uselessly vague, and making themselves sound fancy because they say "synonym"

TulliusCicero 6y ago
> accusing people of lying to win an argument is bad faith I didn't do that. I accused someone of using a cheap -- though fairly common -- type of rhetorical trick. It's a form of motte and bailey, which is itself a logical fallacy. Is accusing someone of using a logical fallacy against the rules of HN as well? Would be ironic in the current context.