fun fact: you can replace "fallacy" with "joke" and it pretty much always works
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fun fact: you can replace "fallacy" with "joke" and it pretty much always works
what turns it into a fallacy is that the joke is taken seriously (by speaker, interlocutor, and/or audience) rather than chuckled at—"ha, good one!"
the straw man joke
the correlation/causation joke
the texas sharpshooter joke
the middle ground joke
the appeal to authority joke
the no true scotsman joke
the mind projection joke
the planning joke
the if-by-whiskey joke