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  2. Stock issues - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the Affirmative claims that not going with the resolution will end in evil and the devil will appear, the Affirmative has not yet met the stock issue burden of specifying anything in particular unique or significant or inherent or justifiable about arguing for or against the supposedly anti-devil resolution; that would be a ...

  3. Circumlocution - Wikipedia

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    For example, [Firefighters] are the people who you call when your house is on fire. A [spider] is an arachnid that catches insects in its web. Synonyms and simile are two other common circumlocution strategies. [4] A pomegranate could be described using these techniques as follows:

  4. Elephant in the room - Wikipedia

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    The expression "the elephant in the room" (or "the elephant in the living room") [2] [3] is a metaphorical idiom in English for an important or enormous topic, question, or controversial issue that is obvious or that everyone knows about but no one mentions or wants to discuss because it makes at least some of them uncomfortable and is ...

  5. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  6. Wikipedia:Two wrongs don't make a right - Wikipedia

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    The first part of the test for this is to ask whether or not the accusations in the original filing of the complaint have merit. If Editor 1 claims that Editor 2 did something wrong, ask whether the information at hand indicates that Editor 2 did, in fact, do something wrong. If the answer is no, then look at Editor 1's role.

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    P.T. Barnum could not have conceived a circus as entertaining as our current political environment. And therein lies the problem; our politics have become a venue for entertainment.

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  9. Whataboutism - Wikipedia

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    For example, one's opponent's action appears as forbidden torture, one's own actions as "enhanced interrogation methods", the other's violence as aggression, one's own merely as a reaction. Christensen even sees utility in the use of the argument: "The so-called 'whataboutists' question what has not been questioned before and bring ...