paul wheaton wrote:Here, fallacy is relabeled as "doublespeak"
Most certainly doublespeak is a type of fallacy. In my experience doublespeak is more the weakening of the underlying grammar in a statement while fallacies are defects which can weaken or change an argument in a statement. I've not heard of other names for fallacy, except perhaps in its use in the Trivium. In this case, learning to recognize fallacies are one part of logical reasoning, which is itself the middle part of the grammar, logic, rhetoric method of critical thinking.
Logical Fallacies and Intellectual Self Defense
Discovering Doublespeak
Informal Fallacies
Trivium
