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Sometimes in discussions (often political ones), I see this pattern:
1. Person A and person B are both members of group G.
2. Person A advocates view P.
3. Person B advocates view Q, which is logically incompatible with P.
4. An outsider concludes that some persons in G are logically inconsistent, because "G has members who believe both P and Q".
Is there a name for the fallacy in step 4? It reminds me a little of kettle logic[0], or the association fallacy [1], but it's clearly different.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_logic
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
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Sometimes in discussions (often political ones), I see this pattern:
1. Person A and person B are both members of group G.
2. Person A advocates view P.
3. Person B advocates view Q, which is logically incompatible with P.
4. An outsider concludes that some persons in G are logically inconsistent, because "G has members who believe both P and Q".
Is there a name for the fallacy in step 4? It reminds me a little of kettle logic[0], or the association fallacy [1], but it's clearly different.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_logic
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy