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Calling somebody a racist is an "adhom," but it's not very controversial to say racists exist and it's bad to be a racist...
by computably 6mo ago
Calling somebody a racist is an "adhom," but it's not very controversial to say racists exist and it's bad to be a racist...
- sigbottle 6mo agoI feel like fallacies can always be applied to anything because unless you're doing pure math (and even then, tons of caveats - one major one being that you already bought into the framework), you can always question deeper assumptions and yes, structurally it might even fit a fallacy. I mean, is-ought is one of the famous unresolved ones. Yet we still have arguably correct beliefs in spite of fallacies. That suggests that merely pattern matching isn't a good solution to detect what "truth" is...