Pseudointellectual

The pseudointellectual invariably mischaracterises. He will mischaracterise what you have said and/or what others have said. He will even not understand the implications of what he's saying. Typically, he will get fundamental concepts wrong, and even misapply argumentative fallacy concepts. E.g. Whataboutism means a disingenuous reversal of accusation, but not, contra to what pseuds tend to think, simply changing the subject or comparing two unfortunate or deleterious events, or setting the grievances of two groups side-by-side. He will not realise the difference between formal and informal fallacies and he will not know that an informal fallacy may be formally valid (tu quoque can be valid, in fact comparing grievances is a necessary part of inter-national negotiation).Eiríksson, self-published.
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