I learned a new word recently: steelpanning. It is a cousin to strawmanning. Steelpanning is you make an attack on your opponent's position and then act as if that proves that your position has been proven.
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Isn't that all Internet and newspaper rhetoric, though
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everything that assumes a binary framework, yes
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OK finally got my head around what you said, and yeah, I've been looking for a word for that move. "X is not true, therefore Y is."
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I got the word wrong, not steelpanning but steelmanning. My bad, sorry.
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Steelmanning is when you try to interpret your opponent's position in as defensible a way as possible before critquing it. The opposite of strawmanning.
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"A straw man is a misrepresentation of someone's position or argument that is easy to defeat: a "steel man" is an improvement of someone's position or argument that is harder to defeat than their originally stated position or argument." https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Steel_man
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