{"id":270,"date":"2017-08-10T17:28:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T22:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=270"},"modified":"2017-08-10T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T22:28:49","slug":"the-motte-and-the-bailey-a-rhetorical-strategy-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2017\/08\/10\/the-motte-and-the-bailey-a-rhetorical-strategy-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The Motte and the Bailey: A rhetorical strategy to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heterodoxacademy.org\/2017\/08\/09\/the-motte-and-the-bailey-a-rhetorical-strategy-to-know\/\">The Motte and the Bailey: A rhetorical strategy to know | HeterodoxAcademy.org<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There seems to be an increasing reliance on a number of questionable debate tactics and rhetorical devices designed to silence any opposition. Examples range from the student who hurls <em>ad hominem<\/em> attacks to the <em>post hoc<\/em>-ster, deviously \u201cconflating\u201d correlation and causation. However, there is one especially effective phenomenon, often unchallenged in its power to shut down balanced debate, smother viewpoint diversity and wall off homogenous dogma. It can be seen in the debate about almost every important social issue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Motte and the Bailey: A rhetorical strategy to know | HeterodoxAcademy.org There seems to be an increasing reliance on a number of questionable debate tactics and rhetorical devices designed to silence any opposition. Examples range from the student who hurls ad hominem attacks to the post hoc-ster, deviously \u201cconflating\u201d correlation and causation. However, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}