The competitive, bad-faith practice of hunting for any possible fallacy in an opponent's argument with the pre-emptive assumption that all their points are therefore false. It's treating logical fallacies as a magic "I win" button in a debate. The Fallagamer isn't interested in truth or understanding; they're playing a procedural game where scoring fallacy-points lets them dismiss the entire opposing view without consideration. It's the ultimate in intellectual laziness disguised as rigor.
Example: "He lost the argument on the merits, so he switched to Fallagaming. 'Your source? Potential bias. Your analogy? Faulty. Your conclusion? Might be a non sequitur. Therefore, everything you said is invalid.' He didn't refute a single fact, but he walked away smug, convinced he'd 'won' by gaming the rules of formal logic."
by Abzugal January 30, 2026
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