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Appeal to HypocrisyHow do you call out hypocrisy without committing the Tu Quoque fallacy? |
asked on Wednesday, Dec 30, 2020 08:54:54 AM by | |
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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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The Fallacy of Inconsistency is to make contradictory claims. Something cannot be both true and not true at the same time and in the same respect. In this situation, I try to keep the focus on the person who said the statement in question. This is not difficult by asking questions, as Boghossian suggested in his book “How to Have Impossible Conversations.” |
answered on Thursday, Dec 31, 2020 11:17:51 AM by Dr. Richard | |
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Tu Quoque is a fallacy of relevance. That is, if someone's personal values (or lack thereof) are irrelevant to the argument, you cannot dismiss their argument using that evidence. You can, however, use it to suggest someone is arguing in bad faith after you've proved them wrong/fallacious through other means. So if you demonstrated their argument did not work, and then showed they're hypocritical, you have done serious work. |
answered on Thursday, Dec 31, 2020 04:04:45 PM by TrappedPrior (RotE) | |
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