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Kettle logic
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<p>Kettle logic is a <a href="/facts/Rhetorical_device/SeAhSYdg">rhetorical device</a> wherein one uses multiple arguments to defend a point, but the arguments are inconsistent with each other. </p><p><a href="/facts/Jacques_Derrida/ln1TBjEn">Jacques Derrida</a> uses this expression in reference to the humorous "kettle story" related by <a href="/facts/Sigmund_Freud/KKIYbom9">Sigmund Freud</a> in <i><a href="/facts/The_Interpretation_of_Dreams/l5aqxoGu">The Interpretation of Dreams</a></i> (1900) and <i><a href="/facts/Jokes_and_Their_Relation_to_the_Unconscious/pS7NRxYj">Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious</a></i> (1905). </p>