Poisoning the well is a fallacy where adverse information about a target is presented preemptively to discredit anything they might say.
Avvelenare il pozzo (Poisoning the well) presenta informazioni negative su qualcuno in anticipo per screditarlo.
| Fallacy | Poisoning the well |
|---|---|
| Definition and Examples | where adverse information about a target is pre-emptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say |
Tags: fallacies, logic
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