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The term "red herring" refers to a kind of dried red fish, which has distinctive and particularly pungent aromatic qualities. In the archaic and now exceptionally rare blood-sport of Fox Hunting, hounds are prevented from catching the fox to quickly or too easily, by distracting them with the strong scent of red herring.
Similarly, a person can be stopped from proving his point in an argument by distracting him with an irrelevant issue, or emotional derailment.
In rhetorical argumentation, the Red Herring is a kind of fallacy- an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue.
In Literature, this fallacy is often used in detective or suspense novels to mislead readers or characters or to induce them to make false conclusions about what may be about to happen in the next scene, or the next chapter.
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Action"Set in an experimental sci-fi comic book action adventure literary world-building project universe of multi-book series nested within other book series, 'The Zeppoverse' may be a bit disorienting to navigate at first... but you kind get used to it...
