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What is the name of the logical fallacy where you rhetorically invalidate an argument by providing an unflattering explanation of why someone might holds that viewpoint, rather than addressing the claim itself? I seem to remember there being a word for that sort of thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism
A related idea is psychologizing — analyzing someone's belief as a psychological phenomenon rather than as a factual claim.