Need a word, maybe akin to 'strawman' and 'steelman', for arguments of the form 'X is flawed/not entirely correct, therefore Y' where Y isn't actually related to X at all, or is one of many alternatives.
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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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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.