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When does Preaching to the Choir become Beating a Dead Horse? Is it ever wrong to argue — making Picking a Fight a fallacy? Could it be a fallacy not to argue — the fallacy of Wrongful Silence? If audiences are elements of arguments, is there a class of Audience Fallacies?2 Quibbling and Nitpicking, Interrupting and Turning a Deaf Ear, as well as Arguing Out of Turn, Arguing Out of Place, and Arguing Out of Order are all bad things to do in argumentation. Do they all deserve the name “fallacy”?
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Cohen, D.H. (2003). Logical Fallacies, Dialectical Transgressions, Rhetorical Sins, and Other Failures of Rationality in Argumentation. In: Van Eemeren, F.H., Blair, J.A., Willard, C.A., Snoeck Henkemans, A.F. (eds) Anyone Who Has a View. Argumentation Library, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1078-8_9
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