You can call it the fallacy of magnification, to adopt the word from cognitive psychology, or more specifically, a "fallacy of magnification arising from cognitive bias".
Essentially the person is turning negligible "corner cases" in a proposition into a central flaw, because they want the argument to be centrally flawed. They are also ignoring that any rational proposition must, by its very nature, have fallible components.
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Date: 2012-02-27 11:25 pm (UTC)Essentially the person is turning negligible "corner cases" in a proposition into a central flaw, because they want the argument to be centrally flawed. They are also ignoring that any rational proposition must, by its very nature, have fallible components.