1 Wrenching from Context : the Manipulation of Commitments
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This article analyzes the fallacy of wrenching from context, using the dialectical notionsof commitment and implicature as tools. The data, a set of key examples, is used tosharpen the conceptual borderlines around the related fallacies of straw man, accent,misquotation, and neglect of qualifications. According to the analysis, the maincharacteristics of wrenching from context are the manipulation of the meaning of theother’s statement through devices such as the use of misquotations, selective quotations,and quoting out of context. The theoretical tools employed in the analysis are pragmatictheories of meaning and a dialectical model of commitment, used to explain how andwhy a standpoint is distorted. The analysis is based on a conception of fallacies asdeceptive strategic moves in a game of dialogue. As a consequence, our focus is not onlyon misquotations as distortions of meaning, but on how they are used as dialectical toolsto attack an opponent or win a dispute. Wrenching from context is described as a fallacyof unfairly attributing a commitment to another party that he never held. Its power as adeceptive argumentation tactic is based on complex mechanisms of implicit commitmentsand on their misemployment to improperly suggest an attribution of commitment.
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Wrenching from Context: the Manipulation of Commitments
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