saltwater fallacy

is the belief that conquest becomes imperialism only after it crosses an ocean.

Recast in definition form from: “… the idea that conquest only becomes imperialism when it crosses …”

imperialism

colonialism

decolonization

self-determination

United Nations

double standard

begging the question

classical fallacy

distinction without a difference

dogmatic fallacy

fallacy of isolation

fallacy of misplaced concreteness

fallacy of misplaced scale

fallacy of simple location

fallacy of the perfect dictionary

God of the gaps

great tool-use fallacy

guilt by association

hot-hand fallacy

intentional fallacy

logical fallacy

ludic fallacy

red herring

short-circuit fallacy

sunk cost fallacy

acronyms

anagram

antonym

Back in My Day

binomial

blonde joke

bumper sticker

Chuck Norris

cockney rhyming slang

collective noun

comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

Deep Thoughts

etymology

false attribution

famous last word

glossary

greeting

haiku

home remedy

I like my [x] like I like my [y]

idiom

let's make like a  . . .

life hack

light bulb joke

limerick

mixed metaphor

mnemonic device

murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

ology (the study of)

optical illusion

oxymoron

palindrome

phobia

pickup line

psychological phenomena and effects

reimagining the x

riddle

seen here

slang

someone should invent

stupid law

superlative

superstition

symbolism

there's a word for that

things that look like other things

Thomasson hyperart

toast (speech)

Tom Swifty

tongue twister

trolley problem

untranslatable word

wacky wares

weather lore

WTF origins

saltwater fallacy, n.All

saltwater fallacy