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Counterfactuals to illuminate an analogy confuse a lot of people.
by selimthegrim 2y ago
Counterfactuals to illuminate an analogy confuse a lot of people.
- rayiner 2y agoOr even the quasi-counterfactual of imagining what was true from 1868-1924 even though it’s not true after 1924. An under-appreciated advocacy skill is reframing arguments to make the logical fallacies in the opponent’s argument clearer. You see arguments all the time that beg the question, but nobody really understands what that is. But sometimes you can rephrase that argument in a way that shows it is engaged in circular reasoning, which is easier to identify.