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If you are going this way, someone could very well "adjectivize" your comment with the label "fallacy of fallacies" it fits very well: The fact that the comment you criticize uses a fallacy, doesn't make that comment wrong! Duckduckgo that! edit: ok, i saw now Haberman has already provided a even better explanation about your superficial use of the word "fallacy" in your argument. Check his link, and learn something.


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It's like you copied the definition of a fallacy in your comment.

Your fallacy fallacy is a horrible comment on the comment about the horrible comment on the somewhat OK article.

It's called a fallacy for good reason.

It's only a fallacy if you use the attack to claim the comment is wrong. Right now it's just a question

It's also called the fallacy fallacy for a reason.

It's unironically called the fallacy fallacy.

Only a fallacy if it's an argument for something. It's actually a criticism of your criticism. Oh hey, you tried to spin my comment with a different meaning. I guess you're guilty of an entirely different fallacy.

What fallacy would that comment even be? It's just a factually incorrect statement.

It's a fallacy to assume that just because a claim was argued in a fallacious manner, that it's also incorrect. (Which is close to what you said.)

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy

Pointing out a fallacy by name is usually silly, but knowing how people twist debates and being able to defend against that is not.


I call this the "fallacy" fallacy.

Fallacy fallacy?

>>It's not a fallacy.

By itself no, but it is often used fallaciously. Such as in this case, when someone is opposing some good thing on the basis that that good thing might, some day, lead to bad things.


Trying to win arguments by just pointing out fallacies is on the list of fallacies too. It's called "Fallacy fallacy".

Yeah it's much better to call this the "fallacy fallacy"

Which fallacy? I don't understand.

Even if they are (which is apparently disputed), pointing out that someone is using a fallacy does not make them automatically wrong. Next time, you should try saying something more substantive than "Fallacy!"

I don't think that's a fallacy fallacy. Fallacy fallacy is when there really is a fallacy in a person's argument, and that fact is used to reason that the argument's conclusion is false.

What fallacy?

Fallacy.
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