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Is their a fallacy for when someone tries to change their story.

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Is their a fallacy for when someone tries to change their story.


 


Person A: Does not mean all people will do X.


Person B: come on really, use commonsense. I'm a realist , don't think some wouldn't do what I commented...


Person A: the key word is some and not all.


Person B: Let's pretend we through responding to each other...key word I never said all or some..

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I'm sorta confused by this, but Dr Bo seems to have made sense of what I was able to gather from it.

Sounds like gobbledygook to me.

Answers

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This sounds like simple lying. In some case, it can be gaslighting . Neither of which are fallacies but in the pseudo-fallacies realm.

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