I wouldn’t call it “perfectly defensible” but rather an argument which is seemingly convincing but takes a lot of effort to unpack and properly respond to. The

I wouldn’t call it “perfectly defensible” but rather an argument which is seemingly convincing but takes a lot of effort to unpack and properly respond to. The aforementioned technique causes onlookers to think that the debate has been won by the party presenting the faulty argument, as their counterpart has no simple and immediate rebuttal. In other circles this is often called a Gish gallop[1], I have no idea why they wouldn’t use more standard terms to describe it, FWIW. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop