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Many of our ideas about the world are based more on feelings than facts, sensibilities than science, and rage than reality. We gravitate toward ideas that make us feel comfortable in areas such as religion, politics, philosophy, social justice, love and sex, humanity, and morality. We avoid ideas that make us feel uncomfortable. This avoidance is a largely unconscious process that affects our judgment and gets in the way of our ability to reach rational and reasonable conclusions. By understanding how our mind works in this area, we can start embracing uncomfortable ideas and be better informed, be more understanding of others, and make better decisions in all areas of life.
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In the first example: what we're doing is defining terms in a way that is favourable to our argument. This is a definist fallacy. In the second example: if you said "all feminists agree on X" then that'd just be a false premise. However, if you go further, and say 'those who do not agree on X are not feminists', this would be considered a no true scotsman.
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answered on Sunday, May 15, 2022 11:52:18 AM by TrappedPrior (RotE) | |
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You're committing the fallacy of waking dreamworld idealismism. Or what I call the unique ismism fallacy....'laughs' 'jeers' 'boos'? |
answered on Thursday, May 19, 2022 09:04:01 AM by skips777 | |
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