PhilGoetz comments on Dark Arts 101: Using presuppositions - Less Wrong
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It's really just the pattern "unspoken premise", which happens all the time, usually accidentally. Rarely can you know whether the person did it intentionally, except when a salesman asks someone contemplating a purchase, "Would you like to take it home today, or have it shipped?"
Sales and marketing are the Dark Arts.