paper-machine comments on Guarding Against the Postmodernist Failure Mode - Less Wrong Discussion
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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.