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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 23

      Currently: "You seem to be saying <insert ludicrous thing I am not saying> "Could you explain to me why you believe <clearly ludicrous thing there is no reason to think I believe> X 100

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 23

      I am torn between responding to these with things like: "You seem to be saying that aardvarks are actually cabbages" or "Could you explain to me why you have decided to believe that Madrid is the capital of France" or completely ignore and mute them.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 23

      My favourite kind of bizarre tweet looks a lot like this: "Hi! Could you explain to me why you've suddenly become supremely evil and utterly stupid by endorsing some strawman version I have created of the people I hate most? I'm genuinely curious. Big fan of your work!"

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 23

      Is there the name for the kind of fallacy where people believe they can define reality out of existence? Humans seem particularly prone to this.

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        2. aim_away_from_face‏ @bickle_aaron Oct 23
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          If you discover it, you can name it! The Pluckrose fallacy has a nice ring.

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        3. Preeti Virdee‏ @PreetiRU Oct 23
          Replying to @bickle_aaron @HPluckrose

          We should call it PFF...the Pluckrose Fallacy of Fuckwits 😆

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        1. Jean D‏ @k6v12 Oct 23
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Defining things out of existence is one of the primary ways intersectional academics support their religion. ex) redefining racism as only applying to"'marginalized" groups and sexism as only against women etc. serves to neatly divide everyone into oppressors and the oppressed

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        1. Sceptical Canuck‏ @Surrey_Atheist Oct 23
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I encounter it often too. Sometimes I reply to them. When I do, it's usually to say "you have poor reading comprehension". Muting is common.

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        1. David Carroll‏ @DaveEncompas0 Oct 23
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          “No other animal but man produces verbal monsters in his head & projects them on the world outside his head. Language is apparently a sword that cuts both ways. With its help man can conquer the unknown; with it he can grievously wound himself.” — Stuart Chase, 1938

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        1. Edmund Beggs‏ @EdBeggs8 Oct 23
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Conceptual analysis.

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        1. Christopher Shenton‏ @MacLarkenson Oct 23
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Seems like they're operating from the position of false dichotomy. The nuance is rounded to the nearest hyperbole they understand. That's how my entire political system trundles along.

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        1. Ghost Millionaires‏ @GhostMillions Oct 23
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          What kills me is that practically EVERYONE seems willing to abandon principle/reason at the point where some arbitrary dearly-held personal BELIEF is threatened. Precisely at the point where it's most required. The number of people who don't succumb to this is vanishingly small.

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        1. Nell "The Void" Hitchens  🌑‏ @NellHitchens Oct 23
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          To be fair humans are the only ones capable of it. I guess those are strong cases of strawmanning. Stay away from them as far as you can. And do not light a match or a lighter within a 50 feet radius. Under any circumstance.

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        1. baz‏ @baz9876 Oct 24
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          Transgenderism

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        1. Donald Wheeler‏ @dnaworks Oct 23
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Feminism

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        1.  🇸leazy  🅱æ‏ @SleazyBae Oct 23
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          cognitive dissonance

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        1. Crazy Swedish Guy‏ @OdiousRepeater Oct 23
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          I thought that was the point of postmodernism - bringing reality down to your level.

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        1. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 Oct 23
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I think that example would be covered by begging the question.

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        2. David Carroll‏ @DaveEncompas0 Oct 23
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I think this captures something of it: “We seldom come down to earth, but allow our language forms, or symbolic machinery, to fashion a demonology of absolutes & high-order abstractions, in which we come to believe as firmly as Calvin believed in the Devil.” — Stuart Chase, 1938

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        3. David Carroll‏ @DaveEncompas0 Oct 23
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          And this: “No other animal but man produces verbal monsters in his head & projects them on the world outside his head. Language is apparently a sword that cuts both ways. With its help man can conquer the unknown; with it he can grievously wound himself.” — Stuart Chase, 1938

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        1. Nocturnal‏ @Nocturnal_biped Oct 23
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Alternate reality fallacy. You have no idea how evil you are in this alternate reality I have fabricated and am now exclusively going to address.

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