The Diverse Types of Gaslighting Tactics

Karen Adkins describes gaslighting as wreaking significant epistemic and moral damages through small, often invisible actions. The philosopher Cynthia Stark argues that gaslighting often involves two tactics, which she calls sidestepping and displacing. So when the woman says, no, you are making me believe all these things that are not real, the gaslighter will simply change the subject or simply dodge the issue.

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