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gosub100 • yesterday at 2:43 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I notice these comments everywhere now. It's some rhetorical sleigh of hand that the absence of a refutal leads to a false assumption that their claim is obvious and needs no support.


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yifanl • yesterday at 2:56 PM

I mean, I've certainly used these cheap rhetorical tricks myself offhand, but I'd at least try to avoid using it when vagueposting something this out of pocket.