Red Herring Fallacy, Explained
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Red Herring Fallacy, Explained
Dans l’argumentation contradictoire de Hofstadter, on aura peut-être reconnu deux des figures de la rhétorique réactionnaire identifiées par Albert Hirschman, celle de la « mise en danger » (jeopardy) et celle de l’inutilité (futility)66. Celles-ci sont souvent combinées bien qu’elles soient logiquement incompatibles entre elles (mais l’on sait bie
... See moreAntoine Chollet • L'antipopulisme ou la nouvelle haine de la démocratie (French Edition)
“Red herrings” has an amusing etymology: As peasant poachers of deer and grouse made off with their booty through medieval forests, they would drag a fish, a red herring, across the trail to confuse the lord of the manor’s bloodhounds.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
people are not very good at dealing with grey areas. for something to be argumentative, the idea should be expressed in extreme opposites. the middle is not to be talked about. so the logic is the same too, in logic, this is called the excluded middle.
Just a moment...
Hollow Abstraction:
An abstraction that sounds coherent, but lacks a specific referent
Most people are easy targets for HAs, because they draw conclusions from abstractions without checking if they're hollow.
Hollow Abstraction is the mental model that best explains web3, IMO.