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A specific form of [Argumentum Ad Argumentum] where adverse information about an argument is presented preemptively, before the argument itself is even made, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing it in advance. The audience is primed to reject whatever follows based on its perceived category or affiliation. Classic example: "This is just relativism" or "This is [postmodernism]" said before someone presents a view that might be labeled as such. The poison works before the argument has a chance to speak. The audience is now inoculated: anything that sounds remotely like relativism is already dismissed, regardless of its actual content or merit. Poisoning the Argument is rhetorical [preemptive strike]—killing the argument before it's born, not by addressing its claims but by tainting its category.
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