Attacks your logic

Hasty generalization

One or two cases get stretched into a rule.

The first tell

You feel boxed in. That feeling arrives before you can name the move.

What it sounds like

Someone says: I met two people from that school and both were lazy. That place produces lazy people.

Say back

Two people can't tell us about thousands.

If they push

I know what I saw.

You saw two people. I believe that part.

How this family is disarmed

Restate the real claim, add the missing options, or ask for the missing step.

See it in dating and at work

Context packs show this tactic in the settings where it does the most damage, and let you drill it against a timer.

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