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Since people are sharing frustrations around the topic of fallacies, my biggest beef with fallacies is that around every month or so someone comes up with an en
by tpoacher 4y ago
Since people are sharing frustrations around the topic of fallacies, my biggest beef with fallacies is that around every month or so someone comes up with an entirely new name for an already existing fallacy, which then trends on twitter and you now have to add to your list of synonyms.
E.g. I'd never heard of the term "Hollow man fallacy" to describe Bulverism before, but I'm like 90% sure it's already the more popular term now.
- samizdis 4y agoI'd not heard of the term Bulverism, so thank you. Nice account of its being coined, by C.S. Lewis, too, for anyone else unfamiiar with the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism
- IshKebab 4y agoI guess the fact that it was C.S. Lewis that coined this is not at all surprising! I imagine arguing about something so obviously wrong with someone so smart would be amazingly frustrating.
- renewiltord 4y agoI think I'm quite forgiving of those. I think a lot of more modern named fallacies are easily reachable by a teenager who happens to have read epistemology. i.e. someone who has been informed of the "straw man" could reasonably "worsen" the fallacy. They might then name it an "invisible man" or a "hollow man" or whatever simply so that their peer group can discuss the term.