Re:Figma Alternatives
by jlokier on Friday September 16, 2022 @12:39PM
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> Is there a logical fallacy for this?
I call it the "fallacy of the crowd" and I agree it is very common.
I first noticed it enough to give it a name (and then see it everywhere!) about 12 years ago.
Not just online, and it's not always talking about a negative, i.e. apparent hypocrisy or contradiction. It is also used to talk about apparent consequence or implication.
E.g. political campaign speeches often use it. "They" this so "they" that; "they" this and then "they" that; "they" say this yet "they" do that: Different subsets of people referred to by "they" in the same sentence or train of thought.
It's a great rhetorical trick for persuading large numbers of people of something rousing yet wrong.
I call it the "fallacy of the crowd" and I agree it is very common.
I first noticed it enough to give it a name (and then see it everywhere!) about 12 years ago.
Not just online, and it's not always talking about a negative, i.e. apparent hypocrisy or contradiction. It is also used to talk about apparent consequence or implication.
E.g. political campaign speeches often use it. "They" this so "they" that; "they" this and then "they" that; "they" say this yet "they" do that: Different subsets of people referred to by "they" in the same sentence or train of thought.
It's a great rhetorical trick for persuading large numbers of people of something rousing yet wrong.