Exhaustive Free Association is a step in a chain of reasoning where the logic goes “It’s not A, it’s not B, it’s not C, it’s not D, and I can’t think of any more things it could be!”[1] Once you spot it, you notice it all the damn time.
This description skips over the fallacy part of the fallacy. On its own, the sentence in quotes sounds like a potentially productive contribution to a discussion.
This description skips over the fallacy part of the fallacy. On its own, the sentence in quotes sounds like a potentially productive contribution to a discussion.