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...have to shut up and accept my authority unquestioningly!" only usually a little more sophisticated, not so blunt, with more ellision of premises to give the illusion of solidity. It's another kind of legerdemain, a verbal sleight of hand (as all rhetorical arguments are) a substitution of emblems for reality - in this case, careful, honest dialectic - and a diversionary tactic, designed to make the...
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