Also known as the rapid-fire tactic, shotgun tactic, or the shotgun approach. Shotgun argumentation is an argumentation technique. The name is a metaphor referring to the blast of a shotgun; many pellets are fired at once. Shotgun argumentation is like that. The typical scenario is that a person offers a lot of different arguments in favor of something. The critics due to time or other limitations do not respond to all the arguments presented.

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  • Also known as the rapid-fire tactic, shotgun tactic, or the shotgun approach. Shotgun argumentation is an argumentation technique. The name is a metaphor referring to the blast of a shotgun; many pellets are fired at once. Shotgun argumentation is like that. The typical scenario is that a person offers a lot of different arguments in favor of something. The critics due to time or other limitations do not respond to all the arguments presented. The arguer than declares victory because some of his arguments were not challenged. This is similar to the informal fallacy argument from ignorance. Or, in case all the arguments are challenged, the arguer proceeds to offer yet more new arguments in favor of whatever he is arguing. The reason this works is that debunking a claim properly takes more time than to make the claim.
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  • March 2009
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  • Talk:Proof by intimidation Merge proposal
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  • Also known as the rapid-fire tactic, shotgun tactic, or the shotgun approach. Shotgun argumentation is an argumentation technique. The name is a metaphor referring to the blast of a shotgun; many pellets are fired at once. Shotgun argumentation is like that. The typical scenario is that a person offers a lot of different arguments in favor of something. The critics due to time or other limitations do not respond to all the arguments presented.
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  • Shotgun argumentation
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