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The anticipation fallacy
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The anticipation fallacy

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Carl Beijer
May 26, 2015
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Given the internet’s aggressively robotic policing of hyper-rational discourse, you’d think that we would have by now discovered every fallacy that human language can possibly articulate. And yet somehow, the right once again proves its endless capacity for innovation:

Reductio ad Somalium. Drink!

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 26, 2015

//plat…

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