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Argument from incredulity is a fallacy in informal logic that asserts that a proposition must be false (or true) because it contradicts one's personal expectati

by BMc2020 4y ago

Argument from incredulity is a fallacy in informal logic that asserts that a proposition must be false (or true) because it contradicts one's personal expectations, beliefs, or imagination

ftxbro 4y ago
> one's personal expectations, beliefs, or imagination I was talking about the evidence in this article about the primate neuron density patterns, and about how our personal expectations, beliefs, and imagination are updated by this evidence.
- thfuran 4y ago
  >Because if it was only from our brain then it wouldn't explain why we got only a slightly bigger monkey brain but also got powers of language and introspection and consciousness. Or, to rephrase, "I don't understand how an only-slightly-larger brain leads to the powers of language and introspection and consciousness." That's not a statement about the implications of evidence.
  - ftxbro 4y ago
    It feels like this is rephrased in almost like a strawman way, so I'm not sure what to say about your statement about whether the rephrased statement is a statement about the implications of evidence.
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