Geoffrey MillerVerified account

why on earth are you linking to rational [sic] wiki? they just like to call everybody racist, etc.

@slatestarcodex : " ... maybe we can just call the whole thing 'strategic equivocation', which is perfectly clear without the digression into feudal fortifications." Let's be honest: everybody's here for that fleeting digression into the idea of feudal fortifications.

Strong and weak versions of a hypothesis sound like a typical case for this. For example, young Earth creationists switching to defense of intelligent design creationism.

No true Scots Strawman would be caught dead virtue signaling form that Potemkin bailey mop?

It's really amazing how often I catch people doing Motte-and-Bailey or Strawman, both of which are arguably opposite sides of the same Shell Game/Three-Card Monte logical fallacy. (The only difference is whose argument they're misstating.)

https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-motte-and-the-bailey-a-rhetorical-strategy-to-know/ …