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Is there a name for coming up with extremely unlikely scenarios where you'd be right? Like, very convoluted, technically possible, but extremely improbable
Pedantry
Gonna tie semantics to that as something related
Are you looking for a debatebro term? That's a violation of "The principle of charity".
"Thought experiments" can end up that way when there's no actual experiment done as a result to test it out, or after it gets released into the wild. The enduring use of P-Zombies or simulation theories.
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Sam Harris-ing
Essentially a form of begging the question; If we assume this scenario where I'd be correct, then I'd be correct.
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