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Hypostatisation?

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Original Question

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?

Answers

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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?)

I would agree that this would fall under equivocation 

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