Many of these fallacies, formal and informal, were identified by Aristotle nearly twenty-five hundred years ago. Has that stopped politicians from using them? On the contrary, they’ve treated them as formal and informal strategies!

— Daniel Martin Klein Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington – Understanding Political Doublespeak through Philosophy and Jokes (2008)

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