Are you assuming that if effective criticisms of the argument in question existed, they would be published in a manner that we should expect to find them?
I was just pointing out a limit on the applicability of the heuristic; if someone controls the discourse, they can allow only bad criticisms of their arguments enter the discourse.
Are you assuming that if effective criticisms of the argument in question existed, they would be published in a manner that we should expect to find them?
Yes. And I think it’s a reasonable assumption.
I was just pointing out a limit on the applicability of the heuristic; if someone controls the discourse, they can allow only bad criticisms of their arguments enter the discourse.