1/ I think this is true. I also think lots of folks rely on them as unsound rubrics: a crude club wielded to bludgeon someone's arguments without ever entertaining them.https://twitter.com/MirakhorHassan/status/1093198944497070080 …
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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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Here's a good ethnographic study showing evidence of exactly that :https://datasociety.net/output/searching-for-alternative-facts/ …
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