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Hypostatisation?Reification involves treating ideas as if they were real. TV Tropes (which has a list of logical fallacies of its own - many of which are more bad arguments and less errors in reasoning) lists the fallacy as hypostatisation instead, giving this example (paraphrased using my lovely characters): Walker: Eating ice cream feels good. Therefore, we should give ice cream to criminals, to make them good. This seems more like equivocation than reification. 'Good' is used in two senses - good as in a 'good' sensation, and 'good' as in morally good. What do you think? |
| asked on Thursday, Jun 10, 2021 07:51:07 PM by TrappedPrior (RotE) | |
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As you start to list properties that the animal lacks to justify eating them, you begin to realize that some humans also lack those properties, yet we don’t eat those humans. Is this logical proof that killing and eating animals for food is immoral? Don’t put away your steak knife just yet.
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equivocation works for me! (And, if you like this response ... i.e., if you consider it a good answer ... can I have some ice cream?) |
| answered on Friday, Jun 11, 2021 12:07:46 PM by Arlo | |
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I would agree that this would fall under equivocation |
| answered on Friday, Jun 11, 2021 07:55:18 AM by Bo Bennett, PhD | |
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