Failure to Elucidate obscurum per obscurius Description: When the definition is made more difficult to understand than the word or concept being defined. Logical Form: Person 1 makes a claim. Person 2 asks for clarification of the claim, or a term being used. Person 1 restates the claim or term in a more confusing way. Example #1: Tracy: I don’t like him because of his aura. TJ: What do you mean by that? Tracy: I mean that he is projecting a field of subtle, luminous radiation that is negative. Explanation: This is such a common fallacy, yet rarely detected as one. Usually, out of fear of
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