Arguments that arguments prove too much often prove too much.
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It's common for approximately deductive arguments to receive responses of the form: "If this were true, something else, which clearly isn't, would also be true, therefore it's false." or "This argument proves too much." or "This argument can be modified in this way, but notice that its conclusion then becomes contrary to what it was before modification! This suggests that it shouldn't be assigned much weight." or "This argument is similar to another argument, and this other argument is susceptib
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