Agreed that hidden-motte-and-baileys are a thing. They may also be caused by pressure not to express the actual belief (in which case, idk if I’d call it a fallacy / mistake of reasoning).
I’m not seeing how they synergise with the ‘gish fallacy’ though.
mathematicians know that a single flaw can destroy proofs of any length
Yes, but the analogy would be having multiple disjunctive proof-attempts which lead to the same result, which you can actually do validly (including with non-math beliefs). (Of course the case you describe is not a valid case of this)
Agreed that hidden-motte-and-baileys are a thing. They may also be caused by pressure not to express the actual belief (in which case, idk if I’d call it a fallacy / mistake of reasoning).
I’m not seeing how they synergise with the ‘gish fallacy’ though.
Yes, but the analogy would be having multiple disjunctive proof-attempts which lead to the same result, which you can actually do validly (including with non-math beliefs). (Of course the case you describe is not a valid case of this)