Buried Claims
A buried claim is a type of presupposition I originally saw discussed in Aella’s post titled “Frame Control” on LessWrong that I think is common but not often discussed.
“Buried claims” - assertions that pressure you to jump through hoops to challenge the core. For example, “Everybody knows you’re sensitive” asks you to challenge everybody knowing before you can challenge being sensitive. If you angrily ask them to stop opening your door without knocking, they might say “Annoyance is understandable, it comes from a desire for privacy instilled into you by an isolated society.” If you want to tell them your annoyance is important, now you have to argue for an isolated society, or that no it’s not caused by society.
In addition to the examples offered by Aella, I’ve previously written about double negation as a form of claim burying.
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