Is there a name for this bad argument?

[simont]

There's a particular annoying pattern I notice in debate, in which one person criticises another's choice of argument on the basis of a sort of misapplication of pragmatics.

Here's a concrete (if slightly melodramatic) example. Imagine we're drinking together, and you demand, suspiciously, ‘Wait, how do I know you haven't poisoned this bottle of

Comments

[aiwendel]

Hmm I don't know about your one, but here's a good list of common fallacies in argument: http://www.relativelyinteresting.com/logical-fallacies-collection-30-ways-lose-argument/
It might be a black /white one - suggesting would definitely rather than could have, perhaps? Or exclusion of the middle.

[atreic]

Have you seen the cognative biases diagram where they put everything in a pretty circle? I really like it

https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18#.n1gg2c1z2

pretty circle

[lisa_eve44]

Wow, that is an awesome share, the cognitive biases thingy on Medium. Thank you!

P.S. Hi Simon!

[geekette8]

It's fairly close to a straw man argument.