
On Women: Feminism
Stone Choir
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The Motton Bailey Argument
The Motton Bailey fallacy is this: You make a wild claim or an indefensible claim. That's the Bailey. And then when someone points out that you made a wild and indefensible claim, you retreat to a moderate reasonable defensible version of that claim. The argument goes back to the more blunt rejection of Christianity of scripture versus the supposedly moderate forces that didn't want to reject those things yet.
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