Tyrrell_McAllister comments on The Sally-Anne fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 12 April 2016 05:12:26PM *  15 points [-]

A special case of this fallacy that you often see is

Your Axioms (+ My Axioms) yield a bald contradiction. Therefore, your position isn't even coherent!

This is a special case of the fallacy because the charge of self-contradiction could stick only if the accused person really subscribed to both Your Axioms and My Axioms. But this is only plausible because of an implicit argument: "My Axioms are true, so obviously the accused believes them. The accused just hasn't noticed the blatant contradiction that results."