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    "title": "The Fallacy Of \"Appeal To The Middle\"",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2014-08-04 04:27:46 UTC",
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    "html": "<p>(I'm sure there is a real name for the fallacy.) One sometimes hears, often in political arguments between opposed views where someone attempts a moderated stance, that \"the truth lies somewhere in the middle.\"  This may or may not be true; if one side is saying the equivalent of \"2+2=4\" and the other is saying \"2+2=5\", then the answer is not \"somewhere in the middle.\"  Likewise, if one side is saying the equivalent of \"2+2=5\" and the other is saying \"2+2=6\" then the answer is still not somewhere in the middle.</p>\n"
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