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Etymological fallacy: https://www.logicalfallacies.org/etymological-fallacy.html

I'm not applying this to your response but I immediately wondered if this exists on the site and it does:

https://www.logicalfallacies.org/fallacy-fallacy.html

An underrated fallacy in general. (Of course I'm just giving a common name to something that was identified, not accusing anyone of having the etymological fallacy in this conversation.)

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