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Such objections themselves may be valid, but they fail to confront the main argument under consideration. Instead, the objection opposes a small, irrelevant part of the main argument. The fallacy is committed because of this diversion; it is fallacious to oppose a point on the basis of minor and
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The fallacy often appears when an argument is difficult to oppose. The person making a trivial objection may appear ready to accept the argument in question, but at the same time they will oppose it in many different ways. These objections can appear in the form of lists, hypotheticals, and even
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where irrelevant and sometimes frivolous objections are made to divert the attention away from the topic that is being discussed. This type of argument is called a "quibble" or "quillet". Trivial objections are a special case of
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These objections are often used to not address the merit of an argument but rather to oppose them from a technicality.
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incidental aspects, rather than responding to the main claim.
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Quillet
informal logical fallacy
red herring
Solanales
Philosophy portal
Straw man


Pirie, Madsen
How to Win Every Argument
ISBN
9781472526977


The book of the fallacy: a training manual for intellectual subversives
ISBN
9780710205216
Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-Free Arguments
ISBN
978-0-495-09506-4
Improving Your Reasoning
ISBN
978-0-13-453465-7
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psychology
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expanding it
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