kettle logic
A rhetorical device involving the use of multiple arguments that are inconsistent with…A rhetorical device involving the use of multiple arguments that are inconsistent with each other.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A rhetorical device involving the use of multiple arguments that are inconsistent with each other.
Origin
Calque of French logique du chaudron. The expression was used by Jacques Derrida in refereCalque of French logique du chaudron. The expression was used by Jacques Derrida in reference to a story related by Sigmund Freud, in which a man accused by his neighbour of having returned a kettle in a damaged condition offers three conflicting arguments: that he returned the kettle undamaged; that it was already damaged when he borrowed it; and that he never borrowed it in the first place.
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable