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Are you sure? One of the biggest problems with LW is inventing jargon for philosophical ideas that have had names for a couple of thousand years. This is problematic if the interested reader wants to learn more.
Example? I believe you, but every time I've personally gone looking for a term in the philosophy literature I've found it.
e.g. "fallacy of grey" is an entirely local neologism.
What's the standard term?
It's a form of the continuum fallacy.
gwern holds that it's actually false balance. Might be a mix. But one or both should have been named IMO.
That's interesting. False balance doesn't seem to replace anything with a continuum. In particular I'm having trouble rephrasing their examples as fallacy of grey examples.
But, eh, I trust gwern.