For what it’s worth, I quibbled with this at the time, but now I find it an incredibly useful concept. I still wish it had a more transparent name—we always call it “the worst argument in the world”, and can’t remember “noncentral fallacy”, but it’s been really useful to have a name for it at all.
For what it’s worth, I quibbled with this at the time, but now I find it an incredibly useful concept. I still wish it had a more transparent name—we always call it “the worst argument in the world”, and can’t remember “noncentral fallacy”, but it’s been really useful to have a name for it at all.