Defn: ad egregorium, by analogy to ad hominem. Debate conducted via ideology labeling attacks ("you're a liberal", "that's alt-right")
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Not always a fallacy: I've used "non-Newtonian physics apply here" & "this alloy doesn't form Martensite, 'quench' has different def."
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Implicitly:
"You're a Newtonian, learn some quantum"
"Your auto industry experience doesn't apply to aluminum alloys, old man"
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...because people identify with their paradigms.
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hmm... only very weaklay. They might identify more with methodologies which form cliques in disciplinary societies
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I'm definitely using "paradigm" here more in its "discipline-defining, clique-forming methodology" sense than to mean "superb example".
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