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Accentuation fallacy

Change the meaning of a sentence according to the emphasis.

The Accentation Fallacy is a fallacious rhetorical resource of ambiguity that is constructed by including in the same sentence an affirmation and a conditioning factor for it, so that the emphasis on one part or the other changes the meaning.- In this way, whoever uses it can dismiss it later or change the emphasis by repeating the phrase in a reasoning and conducting it deceptively. -

example:

I am in favor of X, as long as X is convenient!

(I’m in favor of X only if it’s convenient)

I am in favor of X! , whenever X is convenient

(I’m in favor of X, I take it for granted that it’s convenient)