Totschlagargument
There is a move in a conversation that doesn’t win the argument but ends it. In American constitutional debate, it has become the default. This is an essay about what that costs — not about guns.
RhetoricA collection of 2 posts
Just Asking Questions: The Fallacy Nobody Commits
The problem is not questions. It is the question with a cause already inside it — a post hoc inference the speaker never performs, so it can never be pinned on them.