The other day, I posted an article on the proper application of the Strawman Fallacy. So I thought it would make sense to start off the new year with a companion article addressing steelmanning. While strawmanning is an informal fallacy that involves intentionally critiquing the weaker versions of a position while ignoring the stronger versions, […]
charitable interpretation fallacy
The Fallacy of Charitable Interpretation
In my article “Haha. Imagine that.” I offered a rejoinder to the following Ricky Gervais tweet: “Imagine if you carried on believing in Santa and the tooth fairy into adulthood. And even killed & started wars over it. Haha. Imagine that.” In the discussion thread, Logical Question then offered the following response: “Viewing Gervais’s tweet […]
