Equivocation
One word, two referents, the violent one retired when challenged. Intifada. Shorthand. Some people.
Index · the spine
Fallacy Index
The names we use, and the files that carry them. A tag that does not point at a sentence is a mood.
False equivalence
A state with courts and a militia that targets civilians, listed as one noun. The list is the trick.
Files · /omar
Manufactured ethos
A rank, a battlefield, a degree, a firm the speaker was not at. Authority borrowed from a life that did not happen.
Holocaust appropriation
Never again, concentration camp, genocide — taken off the Shoah and bolted to a policy fight. The museums have already answered.
Files · /aoc
Moral inversion
The day of a massacre redescribed, or the injured renamed as the cause. The killer and the killed exchange captions.
Files · /elsayed
Motte and bailey
The bailey is the sentence that did the work. The motte is the smaller claim offered when challenged. The walk-back does not edit the bailey.
Quote-mining
A clause lifted so the order of the verbs, or the room, disappears. The fog sentence can be real and still be filed for what it did.
Files · /pelosi
Borrowed authority
A tape, a title, a decade of repetition offered as if duration were a premise.
Files · /sanders
Invention
A sentence whose referent is not in the record. The fireable offense. Anger is allowed. This is not.
Files · /jones · not opened