If everybody could learn the difference between a motte and a bailey, Twitter discussions would get about 30% better overnight. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey …pic.twitter.com/VZR7Jirwff
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I have google this every time I come across it, it is one of those terms that just doesn't sink in to my thick skull.
I sympathize. It's not the most intuitively memorable metaphor.
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Can anyone invent a more intuitive metaphor for this rhetorical technique?pic.twitter.com/LZuYT6uGfn
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