RichardKennaway comments on List of Fully General Counterarguments - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 19 July 2015 02:56:52PM 1 point [-]

Another FGA:

Setting the agenda/framing the discussion.

I don't know who first made the observation, but it's a commonplace of politics that if you can set the agenda, it doesn't matter how people vote.

Any time you find yourself crowing "so you admit that in some circumstances you would...!", you have probably committed this one.