There are three different ways an argument can commit the false cause fallacy: post hoc ergo propter hoc; cum hoc ergo propter hoc; and ignoring common cause. The chapter deals with post hoc ergo propter hoc. One example of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy that has had a great ...
The fallacy of the reasons (but only the reasons) was later acknowledged, and the ominous sentence was removed from the final version of the ministerial explanatory memorandum to the law, but the sanction itself remained. Fortunately, case law has never been very receptive to such arguments. Suc...
The causal fallacy is thelogical fallacyof incorrectly making a conclusion about an event’s cause. The causal fallacy is actually a category of fallacies rather than one specific line of faulty reasoning. All of the fallacies that fit into this category are characterized by one thing: the illog...
and modern. But as the days turned into months, the cracks began to show. Let’s set aside, for a moment, the chaos created by shallow OKRs and incoherent prioritisation (leading to a whole bunch of partially supported projects instead of the critical ones fully supported). What became incr...
Then there is disinformation put out by some anarcho-socialists, falsely asserting that all anarchists are socialist. This is petty sectarianism, basically a "one true Scotsman" fallacy.Anarchists can favor any property system consistent with statelessness. ...
However, because of this fallacy, they have to constantly create new enemies to satisfy the needs of a global war economy. Ignoring the fact that the real enemies of our species are not among ourselves, but still in nature, on the forms of catastrophic events, as floods, droughts, famines...
3Intermezzo: The fallacy of defining habits as secretly purposeful When technology researchers include the concept of habit in their studies, they often treat habits simply as faster versions of conscious choices. A striking example of such intellectualism can be found in Clements and Boyle’s (2018...
fallacy. This may be because so many people are unfamiliar with basic logical fallacies, but an even more common reason may be that a person's commitment to the truth of their political ideology may prevent them from seeing that they are assuming the truth of what they are attempting to ...
Fallacy: Any persistent object model is a domain model First of all, a persistent object model does not inherently encapsulate all the behaviors of the business that are likely to change. Second, a persistent object model may include functionality that is not likely to change. ...
The Fallacy of Universalism / 2 April 16, 2025 This is the second in the essay series which began with The Skeptical Case Against Natural Law / 1 The Fallacy of Universalism The 20th century’s obsession with universalism—the notion that humanity can be bound by shared values, laws, or mo...