I read your second critique as implicitly saying “there must be a mistake in the argument”, whereas I’d have preferred it to say “the things that might be thought to follow from this argument are wrong (which could mean a mistake in the argument that’s been laid out, or in how its consequences are being interpreted)”.
I read your second critique as implicitly saying “there must be a mistake in the argument”, whereas I’d have preferred it to say “the things that might be thought to follow from this argument are wrong (which could mean a mistake in the argument that’s been laid out, or in how its consequences are being interpreted)”.