Red Herring Traditional Cache
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Red herring is an English-language idiom that commonly refers to a type of logical fallacy in which a clue is intentionally or unintentionally misleading or distracting from the actual issue. It is also a literary device employed by writers that leads readers or characters towards a false conclusion, often used in mystery or detective fiction. The origin of the expression has a number of theories. Conventional wisdom has long been that it originated from a supposed technique of training hounds to follow a scent, or of distracting hounds during a fox hunt; however modern linguistic research suggests that it was probably a purely literary invention by English polemicist William Cobbett in 1807 and never an actual practice of hunters. The phrase was later borrowed to provide a formal name for the logical fallacy, and is also a formal name for a literary device or technique.
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