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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

If-by-whiskey

A new example of argumentational fallacy (maybe) - so says Wikipedia but I see this as just a rhetorical figure.  "If by whiskey you mean <bad things>, then I'm naturally against it, but if by whiskey you mean <good things> then I'm for it, and I stand by that moral choice, etc., etc.".


Posted by Michael at 10:48 AM
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