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"Kafkatrap" is a meaningless term, beyond "stop calling me a racist just for saying racist things". Acting like it's an accepted logical fallacy is ridiculous.
by DagAgren 6y ago
"Kafkatrap" is a meaningless term, beyond "stop calling me a racist just for saying racist things".
Acting like it's an accepted logical fallacy is ridiculous. It's a term ESR made up because people kept rightly calling him a sexist and racist and he didn't like it and threw a tantrum.
- textgel 6y agoWell lets see... oh that's odd, that meaningless term appears to have a real meaning https://debate.fandom.com/wiki/Kafka_Trap https://debate.fandom.com/wiki/Kafka_Trap . Now why would you be willing to lie about that? Seems it's a perfectly accepted logical fallacy; and the only people who deny it are the sjw crowd largely because it is such a favoured tactic within their ranks.
- DagAgren 6y agohttps://www.dictionary.com/browse/kafkatrap?s=t https://www.dictionary.com/browse/kafkatrap?s=t https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kafkatrap https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kafkatrap https://dictionary.cambridge.org/spellcheck/english/?q=kafkatrap https://dictionary.cambridge.org/spellcheck/english/?q=kafka...
- textgel 6y agoYes those are dictionary's for definitions of words not a repository of debate tactics; if you'd checked you'd also notice that there's no entry for "motte and bailey falacy", "Appeal to Ignorance" or "appeal to authority"; funnily enough it doesnt prevent those existing either.
- DagAgren 6y agohttps://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/logic_in_argumentative_writing/fallacies.html https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/... Still not seeing it.
- textgel 6y agoWell yes if you purely limit yourself to a single college of liberal arts list of definitions then you won't, however search engines are your friend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies And desperately clinging to any page-not-found of whatever website you can find to display it isn't exactly the most secure display of debate.
- DagAgren 6y agoAh yes, Wikipedia, with one source form a libertarian propaganda rag. Very reputable. Nobody but libertarians looking for excuses for racism use that term, deal with it.
- textgel 6y agoAnd at last you've taken my advice > Using a kafkatrap against an opponent you can't beat in debate when they have just pointed out the tactic is probably ill advised; perhaps try something else; Ad hominem or motte and bailey for example. Allow my to quote from one your trusted sources: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/logic_in_argumentative_writing/fallacies.html https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/... > Ad hominem: This is an attack on the character of a person rather than his or her opinions or arguments.