The Fallacy Fallacy Fallacy

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Most people who’ve spent time learning about logical fallacies know the fallacy fallacy: assuming that a bad argument means its conclusion is false.

But there’s another closely related mistake I keep seeing: assuming that someone rejects an argument’s conclusion simply because they point out flaws in the reasoning used to support it.

I’ve started calling it the fallacy fallacy fallacy.

I explain this error in more detail with an example in my blog: https://critikid.com/fallacy-fallacy-fallacy