Isn't that the "Tertium Non Datur" fallacy? Or, if it really has nothing to do w X, a non-sequitur.
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Hm, yeah. Those seem very close to what I'm looking for. Logically equivalent but not quite the same tactically, if that makes any sense.
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Tertium non datur/false dilemma is saying "X or Y, pick one", what I'm thinking of is the rhetorical move "not-X, so Y". Logically equivalent but harder to catch, more of a Gish-gallop move -- if you get someone to agree to the 'not-X' part there's momentum to agree w/ the Y.
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Not to constantly bring things back to my pet issue, but... isn't this the same fallacy that leads people to embrace vulgar materialism simply because they've rejected epiphenomenalism and strawman versions of Cartesian dualism?
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I wouldn't know. I'm Daoist.
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Eastern metaphysics has intrigued me for a long time, I can't help but feel like looking in that direction might help us solve a lot of the hopeless problems we have in Western philosophy
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Non sequitur?
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@lunavis It's a *type* of non sequitur but it's a very specific type. -
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This is way harder than making memes. I need a break
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It's like "stolen / diverted correctness" or something, in that you steal the (emotional feeling of) correctness of "not X" to employ it for the unrelated Y.
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Or maybe something more alliterative, like "the pilfered proposition" or "the diverted disconfirmation". Or more more common-language-like, as in "the slippery negation" or something. The point is in the re-purposing / theft of the truthiness of a negation.
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