Psychosmurf comments on Privileging the Question - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Psychosmurf 30 April 2013 01:13:05AM 4 points [-]

I believe they would term it "manufactured consent." Although, I think the two ideas are slightly different. The idea behind manufactured consent is that, in order to answer a question one way or another, you must implicitly accept its premises. It is a special, politicized case of privileging the question.