2/ That's a problem because arguments are *projections* of what they know and believe, not what they actually know and believe. And, we all make mistakes. But, experiences are not uniformly distributed -- they're socially-patterned.
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3/ So when people bleat "logical fallacy!" and "see How to Disagree, DH1!" reflexively, they get to imagine, 1. They're extant beliefs are correct; 2. They aren't missing any information. Ironically, used this way, logical fallacies are cheap heuristic for confirmation-seeking!
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