So a #fallacy is defined by how the conclusion was arrived at, not what the conclusion actually is. Any conclusion that was arrived at through fallacious reasoning, is a logical fallacy.
However, that only proves that the conclusion is illogical, it doesn't prove that the conclusion is logically false.
@Empricorn@silence7 Also, “the murder limit of 0 is so low that many will probably start ignoring all manslaughter prohibitions, making society more dangerous and enforcement difficult.”
The balance #fallacy is an informal logical fallacy that occurs when two sides of an argument are assumed to have equal or comparable value regardless of their respective merits, which (in turn) can lead to the conclusion that the answer to a problem is always to be found between two extremes. The latter is effectively an inverse false dilemma, discarding the two extremes rather than the middle.
While the rational position on a topic is often between two extremes, this cannot be assumed without actually considering the evidence. Sometimes the extreme position is actually the correct one, and sometimes the entire spectrum of belief is wrong, and truth exists in an orthogonal direction that hasn't yet been considered. Furthermore, oftentimes the two sides being compared aren't equally extreme, so a conclusion drawn from this fallacy will end up benefitting the more extreme side.
#Musk's stupid "#Cybertruck" is going to go down in history as the 21st century's #Edsel. It's a ridiculous #gimmick#vehicle that a lot of people are going to regret buying, although many will be ensnared by the Sunk Cost #fallacy, and continue defending it long after reality has set in.
He keeps to take the energy to run them for granted. A look into the editorial of the august issue, just one page before his own, could tell him otherwise ("This means the sustainability of computing/AI must be a concern for all computing researchers."). https://doi.org/10.1145/3606254@ACM#sustainable 🌍 #permacomputing
¹ https://mro.name/auzezk5
Why is the claim: ”Everything is fair and equal because the same rules apply to everyone” a #fallacy?
This cornerstone of modernity has eventually been shown to be false, because it is based on the assumption that humanity experiences ”the world as it is”.
Cognitive & computational neuroscience have strongly pointed toward Kant’s description of human experience to be the correct one: 1/3
The #RedHerring fallacy.
"As a philosophy professor, this is how I explain the #fallacy to my students: If the argument is not going your opponent's way, a common strategy — though a fallacious and dishonorable one — is to divert attention from the real issue by raising an issue that is only tangentially related to the first."
As outlined in this piece, the #FossilFuel industry uses this tactic often. The examples include #CarbonCapture schemes.
So I am a week into my #Zizek#Lacan#Hegel studies, through Zizek's lens. All good. I think Zizek's #philosophy of looking at Hegel through the Lacanian lens is seductive. That said, where I find the lens of Zizek lacking, and I now wish he'd not talk about these 2(3) things any more are:
I was a serious #catholic half my life, seminarian for minute, and an ordained deacon, still, even after I confessed my #atheism. So I get what he is saying. My atheism has never felt the same as #Dawkins or #Hitchens, whom we adore, and Zizek sneers. Slipping through the profound safety net religion and a transcendent, all powerful, personal god into the #existentialism of nothing was terrifying, it was my first experience of the "#real." This is it. This is all there is. The problem is it appears Zizek commits the #fallacy of #reification (if we understand it correctly). Clearly he knows it is #fiction, even if profound from a #psychoanalytic Hegelian #CriticalAnalysis, we get it we really do, but it is not real. The #event is real, and the fiction caused the event, but the fiction is still fiction. There is no God, IOP, that became an atheist. The #story Zizek emphasizes is powerful, the changing of the cosmos when #Jesus on the cross questions Gods love. Good story and that is all. Some RCC positions from recent popes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlBZy_iu0m8 and https://www.romereports.com/en/2021/09/14/full-homily-of-pope-francis-at/
So please, Zizek, can I say stay in your lane where you are brilliant, please.
ToM is an internal state of this-agent about the internal state (mind) of other-agent. It is a prediction of other-agent's future actions, made up to guide proper (re)action of this-agent.
Agent-other-ness needs this-ness of an agent(!).
But, a thing can output something (text) that induces a ToM in an agent (reader), even about that agent itself.
Thing's text mimics signals-tinted-with-ToM of typical agents.
#Irrational escalation of #commitment is reflected in such proverbial images as "throwing good money after bad", or "In for a penny, in for a pound", or "It's never the wrong time to make the right decision", or "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment
The Land of Ferrari and Lamborghini Has a New Speed Limit: 30 K.P.H. (www.nytimes.com)