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"In a deeper sense fallacies, if scientific, are
often as useful as truths, because they open new and unexpected fields for
inquiry."
- Alfred Korzybski
"Yes, truth is
gone, and anyone who renounces evil is attacked."
- Isaiah 59:15
"Truth is not only
violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by
silence."
– Henri
Frederic Amiel
"A fox running away in terror was asked what had
created the terror.
The fox stated, 'The authorities are taking camels for
forced labor.'
In reply he was told, 'You are not a camel and do not even
look like one!'
The fox answered, 'If a false witness were to state that I
was a camel,
who would work for my release?'" - Saadi of
Shiraz
false is defined
as:
deliberately untrue
not genuine or
real
intentionally
deceptive
contrary to
fact or
truth
arising from mistaken
ideas
not keeping
faith; treacherous
in a treacherous or faithless manner
to
mislead by want of truth; to
deceive
not according with
truth or reality;
not true
not well founded; not
firm or trustworthy; erroneous
not faithful or loyal, as to obligations,
allegiance, vows
not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit
"It's always amazing to me to hear an intelligent,
articulate, rational person come to an absurd
conclusion. This usually results when starting with an incorrect premise." -
Paul Moser III
"Greg Palast
presents one piece of the puzzle regarding the
catastrophic failure of the American media in recent
years, that piece having to do with profit and
funding.
There are many others, but there's one I've never seen
mentioned anywhere, and this is the most frightening aspect of all: Sometimes,
the American people don't want to
know.
After
being taught from childhood that America is
above reproach in all ways, many
Americans find it impossible to
believe that our government can be corrupted, our elections can be stolen, our
culture can be corrosive. We label
stories that don't
conform to our image of ourselves as
false or mean-spirited or even treasonous.
Sadly, when our
leaders are corrupt and the media are
cowed, there is no one left to tell us that we're being unreasonable or unfair,
or even that we're being victimized
by our own government. We're left to figure it
out on our own, as tragedies strike: a
son lost in Iraq, a home
destroyed by
Hurricane Katrina, a
health insurance policy canceled, a
pension denied. Eventually we'll understand, but by then the
America we love
and believe in may be lost." - Catherine A.
McCallum
"Infinite mercy flows continually
But you're asleep and can't see it.
The
sleeper's robe goes on drinking river water
While he frantically hunts mirages in
dreams
And runs continually here and there shouting,
"There'll be
water further on, I know!"
It's this
false thinking that blocks him
From the path that leads to
himself.
By always saying, "Further on!"
He's become estranged from
"here":
Because of a false
fantasy
He's driven from reality." -
Rumi
Although it is likely that humanities physical
conceptual image
of reality upon the Earth is based upon a
common objective physical
reality it does not follow that factions of
humanity describe that
reality in terms that remain identical across
tribal, religious, cultural and sociological barriers.
In the normal coarse of human communication there lies an innate
problem which is one of the major causes of
friction between the various ideological
factions, religions,
tribes, cultures and societies of humanity.
Differences of conceptual
image of reality
that are held by one social group are amplified
by their ‘strangeness' in the eyes of the
social group
perceiving modes of
behavior that are
alien to them. ‘Strange'
behavior is seen as
inherently alien when compared
to the behavior which would
be expected of
individuals residing
within the base
social group of the original observer.
On a smaller scale something similar to the above happens to children
when they grow into adults and strike out on their own. They invariably
evaluate the behavior of
other
individuals they meet in different
social settings in terms of the
behavior of members of their
immediate family and past friends.
The evolution of the
individual personality will,
naturally, be affected by the
behavioral traits of each of
the individuals with whom the
original personality spends time. It is at this
time, a time of
personal interaction, that fallacies are spread
within the bounds of a given
social group.
How do these fallacies
survive and continue to spread, especially
after individuals eventually
realize they are bunk?
Social
scientists call the process a "micro-macro disconnect." At the micro level - the
individual level -
we hear a
fallacy, we may believe it for a while,
we spread it a
little during that time, but then eventually
we come to accept that it is false.
But
at the macro level - the societal level - the
fallacy just keeps on
spreading. This appears paradoxical, given that society is, after all, a collection of
individuals. In this
sense, a spreading fallacy is a lot like an
epidemic disease.
Think of it this
way:
If
someone has heard a fallacy and
believes it, she is "infected" by it. If she tells her friends, she is
"contagious." Sooner or later,
wisdom or common
sense takes hold, and like a child who
recovers from chickenpox, she is "immune." This
is more than just a cute analogy. Computer models of a
disease can be adapted, with remarkably few
modifications, to study the paradox of
persistent fallacies.
Persistent fallacies always give
way to the cold hard
truth of reality.
Age
within a social cultural
group helps explain the
persistent of fallacies.
Over
time there are always new
people entering the 'group' through aging.
The most persistent fallacies
achieve an equilibrium, which means
that the fallacy believers belong
within the range of a well-defined
group by age, race, religion, culture, opinion,
politics, wealth, ideology
and/or all the other catagories that groups
can be contained within. As
individuals
age, or gain more experience, they cease to
believe the fallacy but are replaced, through
aging, by a new crop of
believers (and fallacy spreaders).
As well
persistent fallacies, like the common
cold virus, are mutable.
Unfortunately people are not born
with an extensive knowledge base of
reality. Although the
knowledge base of reality grows with personal
experience any knowledge that we have not
personally experienced is entirely dependent on the information given.
When we have been given false information we will hold a false
image of that part of reality which resides outside of personal
experience.
Unfortunately for us to have a clear understanding of
reality outside of personal
experience it is necessary for us to get
unbiased, accurate and truthful
information about what is happening in the world.
Vested interests would like us to
believe reality
is as they have told us it is as opposed to how reality truthfully is. Many hold a false image of
reality created by a viral fallacy disease that
disables intellectual functions - a viral disease based in fallacy that
inundates us with a fantasy
vision of reality.
Many of the fallacies spread amongst unsuspecting
believers were originally spread by those in power.
Why would
those in power do such a thing?
For social control purposes
and monetary gain.
All we can do is try to
educate the
individuals who have been
infected by the fallacy virus of a
fantasized reality.
There is no guarantee that
our "education
vaccine" will work especially with the
think tanks, pundits and
experts constantly spewing fallacies to
distract,
confuse and undermine confidence. With
persistent fallacies, most
humans become immune the old fashioned
way: over time through experience.
Over
time through experience the vast
majority of human beings
understand that their
personal experiences are mirrored within the
social culture by many others,
that others agree that some things are
just not probable and that other things most likely are possible,
that some things did not happen as
they have been portrayed and that there are extensive
belief systems - literary
metaphors or myths accepted as reality - that fail
entirely to mesh with reality. These shared
experiences help to bring the individual
back into existent
reality as opposed to a
fantasized reality based on the false information of
propaganda.
An
understanding of the
Law of God, of
Natural Law, of
redemption, of reality and of inner
peace ensues.
“An important scientific innovation rarely
makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does
happen is that the opponents gradually die out.”- Max Planck
A lie passed down
through three years, thirty three years, three hundred and thirty three years
or three thousand three hundred and thirty three years will never metamorphize
into truth.
Nature is evil; man has conquered nature.
Central planning is better; large collectives are
more efficent.
There is a chemical cure for all medical woes;
chemicals, used medicinally, make life better.
The banking system in
America is decentralized;
the Bank of International
Settlements has no say in the central banking systems.
Government
has a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of objective reality than the
ordinary citizen;
government institutions never succumb to bias',
prejudices, preconcieved notions or "group thinking."
Good always wins;
evil always fails.
Humans have
only five senses;
gentle touch is
not needed by humans.
It is better to be
ignorant;
knowledge brings discontent.
It is better to work with
dull tools;
one is less likely to
injure oneself.
Neglected children can be
'normalized';
neglected children
are not affected by the neglect for the rest of their lives.
The
theory of evolution precludes the
existence of a
Creator and Sustainer of the
Universe;
Charles Darwin did not
believe in God.
No
one ever died from a broken heart;
stress is not caused by too many demands on the
individual.
There is no such
thing as
error or
corruption;
I never make a
mistakes;
if I believe I am exceptional then I
am.
Very few humans are
spiritually corrupt;
the vast majority, the
righteous, are going straight
to heaven.
Publishers of
knowledge never 'borrow' their
knowledge;
paying for
knowledge makes it worth more.
Individuals that are
wealthy are
smarter, better and more deserving;
otherwise god would not have blessed them with
wealth.
Celebrities are special
people better than everyone else;
celebrities work
hard, look better and are smarter because they have been
given special status by
god.
Individuals that
are given the power to make critical decisions
always make the right decision;
powerful
individuals always have all the
knowledge and wisdom to make the correct decision
- sometimes
they say "I am the Decider."
There is no human population
problem;
Earth can support an
infinite number of
humans.
The resources of the
Earth are
infinite;
the
ecosystem of
Earth is not a closed
system.
There is no problem with the
global economy;
the
fossil fuel based
economic structure of the
world economy is
sustainable as
fossil fuel will last
forever.
There will never be an energy
shortage;
humans will come up with
other methods of
creating energy because man is now
technologically advanced .
Nothing
on the planet Earth evolves;
virus' never
mutate so one flu shot will immunize an
individual forever.
Aids is not a spreading
epidemic;
all virus
mutations will eventually be
conquered.
Mammoth multi-national corporate owned agricultural
mono-culture farms do not hurt the environment;
diversity of life is not
important.
Genetic engineering increases
crop yields and drought tolerance;
genetic engineering is not done to
increase plant tolerance to herbicides, make plants toxic to insects and create
unviable seeds.
American
government
exists to serve the
citizens of America;
not to serve
American aristocracy and
the interests of Israel.
Corporate mouthpieces do not repeat
endlessly the mantra "liberal morals are
destroying America";
Talmudist
marketing machines are not to blame for the
race to the bottom of acceptable human social
cultural behavior.
It does not matter if the
governmnet tells the truth;
government agencies
know what is best for the
American people.
The
existing form of American government
- a marriage of
government and
corporations known
as corporatism
- is the best we
can ever have;
America -
love it as it is or leave it.
Corporatism is
an automatically self-correcting system in
which invisible hand balances "free"
markets; corporatism does not
resemble socialism, communism or fascism in
many ways.
The government
of American is not 'owned' by
American aristocracy;
congressmen and senators
never give 'earmarks' to
their relatives, friends and
buddies;
Zionists are not
considered first when analyizing political possibilities.
Politicians always intend to keep the
promises they make when
campaigning for elected office;
a
change of popular opinion makes it alright to
break a promise.
The
politician that is elected is
elected because his or her character resonates
with the populace;
the politician that
spends the most money does not, 98 percent
of the time, win the
election.
Elections are always fair and
honest;
elections are never rigged.
Campaign 'donations'
do not buy access to elected officials;
there is no
quid pro quo of 'favors'.
Information services via
mass media of newspapers,
magazines,
television and the internet are always
altruistic;
they always tell the whole truth, nothing but the truth and are never biased.
A
democratic form of
government, such as
America's, will continue to function correctly
if politicians deem it necessary to 'spin', to
deceive or to use
propaganda if it is in the best interests
of the citizens in the
politician's superior
judgement (based on his or her unbreachable
Talmudic ethical standards);
if the end result is
good, in the eyes
of the politician, then the end
justifies the means.
If you sail away
across the ocean you will eventually come to the
edge of the Earth and fall off; the
Earth is flat.
Disdain for science, the
scientific method and the verifiable conclusions of science is an admirable
trait; studying and attempting to understand the working of natural reality is
heretical; rejecting the conclusions of science because they fail to mesh with
personal religious beliefs is expected of the faithful.
Pharmaceutical
corporations are in business for
altruistic reasons; pharmaceutical
companies do not experiment on people to 'see' what
side effects a drug has; the right chemical
combination will make you healthy and happy.
If a
pharmaceutical is prescribed by a doctor
then it is good for you;
pharmaceuticals,
other than antibiotics, made by the
pharmaceutical
industry do not just treat the symptoms,
they cure the ailment.
Israeli
actions are always justified as Adolf Hitler committed genocide;
Israeli's have never stolen land from
the Palestinians and
Americans have never given the
Israeli's the money to build settlements
in occupied Palestinian territory;
Israeli's are owed special compensation
by the rest of the Earth's population because of the genocide they experienced
at the hands of Adolf Hitler.
Most of those that consider themselves
Jews are Semites; most of
Yiddish
Jewish blood is of
Khazar descent.
The
Wall Street and international bankers did
not finance the rise of Adolf Hitler and the construction of the Third Reich;
American industrialists, with the help of Wall Street and international bankers, did
not industrialize the Soviet Union.
The Jews did not declare war on
Germany in 1933 because Adolf Hitler fired the
Bolshevik communist Jews in the German government; Ulysess S. Grant did not
purge the Jews from the Treasury Department with an executive order.
The central banks are not run by Jews or handpicked crypto-Jews; Jews
have not won the majority of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
awarded; Jews did not come up with the idea of fractional reserves, the central
banking system and do not control the International Bank of Settlements in
Basil, Switzerland; Jews have not financed and profited off of all the major
wars in the past two centuries.
Tort laws of America are
needed to protect
corporations;
idiots like
Grazinski take upstanding American
corporations to the cleaners;
it
is not true that lawsuits between big businesses over contracts more than
tripled in federal courts between 1960 and 1988, while suits filed against them
by ordinary citizens declined 21 percent;
it is also not true that between
1986 and 1998 lawsuits by average citizens against small business operations
and individuals declined 12 percent;
it is not true that only about 2
percent of those injured by a physician's negligence ever seek compensation
through a lawsuit and that doctors have been winning in court over 70 percent
of the time.
Corporations
are run to benefit the general population;
laws force
corporations to act in a
ethical manner.
North Atlantic Free Trade
Agreement did not cause the value of corn
produced by Mexican farmers to plummet;
those Mexican farmers did not
illegally cross the border to
work for subsidized agricultural behemoths.
The
North Vietnamese attacked first
when they fired on American
destroyers in the
Gulf of Tonkin;
Lyndon
Banes Johnson did not lie to
Americans in a speech when he told them that
"our boys are floating around in
the water".
If South
Vietnam becomes
communist then the dominoes will
fall;
the nations on Earth will then be
mostly communist.
The
Central Intelligence Agency through Operation Ajax
did not help the Shaw of Iran
dispossess the democratically elected
government of
Iran which lead to the
government of Ayatollah Kohmeni;
all Iranians are
evil Islamists
that would put all Christians and
Jews to the sword.
{ CIA'S 1953
COUP IN IRAN }
The Central Intelligence Agency did not help Augusto
Pinochet dispossess the
democratically elected
government of Chile with the
September Plan and at least $10 million; socialism would have swept Latin
America
without thoughtful
Central Intelligence Agency involvement.
Iraq became a
republic, Public Law 80 was enacted
to prohibit the granting of concessions to any foreign company,
control over all matters
connected with
oil was granted to the
Iraq National
Oil Company and
American aristocracy
oil concerns were overjoyed that
Iraq had become a
democracy;
the Central
Intelligence Agency did not help the Baathists and, ultimately,
Saddam Hussein gain
control of
Iraq.
Iraq has
weapons of mass
destruction;
America did not help
supply Iraq with
weapons of mass
destruction in the Iraq versus
Iran
conflict.
The involvement of the
Central Intelligence Agency in El Salvador did not
lead to the creation of
MS-13;
children can
witness horrific violence and not be affected.
Jose Santos Zelaya, was not a crusading reformer who built roads and
ports in Nicaragua in the first decade of the 20th Century;
American
corporations did not go to
Washington to get aid in overthrowing Jose
Santos Zelaya;
American Marines were not
deployed to Nicaragua to suppress a
series of rebellions after the
overthrow of Jose Santos Zelaya; Americans did
not supply money to the Contras by selling weapons to Iran for
Ronald Reagan;
Ronald Reagan never denied the arms
sales.
Elements of the Ronald
Reagan administration were not involved with narcotics distribution, the
crack cocaine epidemic, in relation to funding the Contras; the
American hostages held in Iran were not
released because Iran was provided weapons
purchased with the profits of bulk cocaine sales - later to be made into crack
cocaine.
The federal government of
the United States of America has never
supported brutal dictatorships;
the
federal government of the United States of
America did not support Augusto Pinochet,
Mohamed Said Barre, Saddam
Hussein....
Bob Dole never said 'tobacco is no more harmful than
milk';
Tom Delay never said DDT is as
‘safe as aspirin'. (Bob Dole must have been talking about melamine
tainted milk and Tom Delay must have been
talking about unbuffered aspirin.)
Jack Abramoff stands out as the only
lobbyist corrupting government;
"K Street" is there to serve ordinary
working Americans.
I. "Scooter" Lewis Libby did not obstruct
justice; commuting and/or pardoning former
employees convicted of a crime or crimes committed on your behalf is not done
to keep the former employee from becoming a witness for the
State;
it is OK to break the
law if you are a high ranking government official
if the law is an onerous or
bad law and you find
it expendient to do so.
The Sun revolves around the
Earth;
the Earth is the center of the Universe;
reality revolves around me.
Individuals that talk to animals, grow herbs and
enjoy nature are witches or warlocks; individuals that do no
unequivocally accept the social culture in
which they live as the best possible social cultural arrangement are
anti-social uncivil beasts; individuals that do conform
to social behavioral norms are best punished through institutionalization -
locked up and punished - with
lobotomizing drugs in mental
institutions or with inadequate food,
health care and skill training in penal institutions.
A
plutocracy or oligarchy
controlled by an aristocracy produces the most equitable form of
resource distribution;
rising
civilizations have never been built on a
large prosperous middle
class.
The Chinese have joined the capitalist Western economic system and
promise to play fair;
the Chinese will
not conquer America by helping
American aristocracy wipe out the
middle class of
American society;
American
aristocracy could never be the deceived by the Chinese because
American aristocrats are much more intelligent
and have a better grasp of reality than average
working Americans.
The 'war on terror' can be
won;
we just need to round up all the evil
doers, send them to Abu Gharib or Guatanamo Bay and
learn more about their
operations by
torturing them.
The 'war on terror' is being
fought to protect average
working Americans from terrorists acts;
the 'war on terror' is not
being fought because terrorists
spoil all the fun for
American aristocracy.
During
World War II Americans had to drop the
atomic bomb on Japanese
women and children;
otherwise the Japanese would not
beleive that we would really use
nuclear warheads on
population centers and those
wily Japanese women and children would slaughter many, many
invading American soldiers.
Air
power is far superior to any
other form of military
power;
the American carpet firebombing of Tokyo, a city made
of wood, with incendiary bombs did not
result in the burning alive of 90,000 women and
children in 1945;
the firebombing campaign of Dresden in which thousands of
tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs, nearly 4000 tons altogether, were
dropped to ignite a self-sustaining
firestorm with
temperatures peaking at over 1500 degrees C was justifed as those 35,000 wily
German men, women and children killed and injured were
evil doers.
American food
processors make nutritious products that
are healthy for you; trans fat, margarine, hydrogenated
oils, palm seed oil, cottenseed
oil do not clog arteries and high
fructose corn syrup does not cause diabetes; chemical additives,
pesticides and
other
toxic residue concentrations are too
weak to harm you or even in combination
cause cancer, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's; processed food is not equivalent to soylent
yellow.
Tobacco companies never add
chemicals to
tobacco;
nicotine is not addictive,
processed American
tobacco products never cause
cancer and are as "safe
as milk".
Depression is never caused by factors
in the individual's environment;
the new wonder antidepressant
drugs will make you happy forever
regardless of negative factors affecting your life;
those that experience
depression should be shunned and
excluded from normal human social interaction to
"reform" their lack of adherence to traditional social norms;
those that have been
neglected by their parents, therefore
emotionally disabled, should be
stigmatized;
very few people ever experience
depression.
If you take
LSD you will
try to fly or stare at the sun until your
eyes burn out;
your
DNA will be
mutated and you will parent
mutants.
DNA is infallible for convicting individuals
of crime;
DNA is not proof that
Darwin's theory
of evolution is the truth.
Advertisers and marketers do not
falsely condition our understanding of reality by creating a conceptual "futurism of the past";
the technologies of the 1940's revolved around
supersonic flight and atomic power and were not a time of tanks, airplanes,
cars, coal, wheat and pig farming.
It is good to allow a few wealthy individuals to
control all the
resources;
they are benevolent and
wealth trickles down;
soon, through hard
work and
perserverance, all
Americans that work hard will be wealthy.
Mankind is not overburdening the
Earth's ability to regenerate;
the Earth's capability to absorb
toxins is
infinite.
Cancer is a test of our character sent by
god;
toxic
chemical cocktails in developed nations
does not cause cancer or reduce sperm
counts.
When anyone proclaims they have been given the task to 'found' a
new religion by God, they have talked with God;
humans that have talked with
God never allow any of their
prejudices or preconceived notions
color the way in which they
conceptualize God.
If it is written in or as a sacred text
it was written by the hand of
God;
humans can not corrupt sacred
writings through copying or translation
and they would never make changes without God's
permission.
God wants
us to
force
other
humans to accept our particular
way of life, our
beliefs and our opinions;
literal
translations of
sacred texts require unquestioning
obedience to
religiously
astute politicians.
Religion never evolves; the
Christianity practiced by the disciples of Jesus is the same Christianity
systematized by the Roman Catholics at the Council of Nicea three hundred years
later; the Judaism of today is the same Judaism practiced by Moses who helped
write and edit the Talmud commentaries on the Torah; the concept of the Rapture
did not first occur at the beginning of the 20th century; Pentecostalism does
not incorporate elements of Kabbalah within it.
Mankind
can solve any problem;
God will grant us the
technological
magic to solve any problem.
Unidentified flying
objects, UFOs, are space ships from
another planet;
aliens are alive and well on Earth, just ask the Men in Black.
Chemical
female sexual hormones are
good for women past menopause;
chemical female sexual hormones do not cause
breast
cancer.
Breast implants make a woman 'sexy'; breast
implants never look 'fake';
women who have had
breast implants do not have the highest
suicide rate.
Studs in tongues,
cheeks, lips, nipples, labia, bellybutton, etcetra are 'sexy 'and make the wearer 'hot';
streched
ear lobes are 'sexy' and make the wearer
'hot'; Mursi and Surma women are some of the 'hottest' women on Earth as their
stretched lips and earlobs are so aesthetically pleasing.
People are born to be homosexual;
homosexuality is not a leaned trait;
homosexuals have their first, and early formative,
sexual experiences with a member of the
opposite sex before discovering their homosexuality.
Promiscuous
sex never causes
emotional pain because there is an
understanding that 'we are
just friends/fuck buddies";
as long as I do
not have sex with unattractive or overly
promiscuous humans I will never get
sexually transmitted
diseases.
Paying for sex is
satisfying;
paying for sex does not
cheapen sexual activity.
Remote
viewing is real;
the
military practices remote
mind control.
Telekinesis is
real;
the military controls individuals who use this effectively
as a weapon.
Telepathy is real;
someone out there is reading your mind
right now and plotting your downfall.
Ghosts exist;
they are disembodied spirits that got
stuck on Earth.
Fluoride, a waste
product of
atomic bomb
production, is harmless;
fluoride does not cause fluorosis and it
strengthens teeth.
Adding fluoride to the
water was requested by the federal governement
to protect Americans teeth;
fluoride was not added to the
water as a way to distribute it throughout the
environment so it would not be concentrated in any one place.
Chlorine
is a perfectly harmless chemical when used properly;
excess chlorine in the
water does not destroy the kidneys thus requiring kidney
dialysis.
Irradiation by
nuclear accident will
cause a human to gain
superpowers;
all varieties of 'strange
accidents' have the ability to turn humans into superheros.
Gambling is fun;
there is a
good chance
that when I gamble
I will win
as long as I have a positive attitude and
believe I will
win.
Drugs are fun for recreation;
individuals that are careful using
drugs never get addicted.
Hydrogen for cars is a new energy
source;
hydrogen creation is energy free as water is
made of hydrogen and
oxygen.
Scienctific
realization is always only a
'theory';
scientific
theories, like Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, are just overblown
hypothesis that can not be
proved.
There are no such things as microbes;
leaching the 'bad blood' with leaches will
restore health.
Astroturf is
an intelligent xeriscape solution; Astroturf cools the air just like living
plants.
"A partial
truth is plausible, because there is evidence to
support it.
And hence, it is easy to assume that it is the total
truth.
Partial truth or half truths
are often more insidious than total falsehoods. Total falsehoods can be easily
exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are
less likely to be accepted as the total truth."
- Samuel P. Huntington,
American political scientist
| the table of fallacious logical
conclusions |
The teleology fallacy
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"He that is not
with me is against me"
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The romantic
fallacy
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the
idea that mankind is inherently
good
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The depravity
fallacy
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the idea that mankind is inherently
evil
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The fallacy of
composition
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if A equals X
and B is composed of A's then B equals X
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The fallacy of
definition
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the definition
fails to make clear the
concept
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The cornucopia
fallacy
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there will
always be enough food to feed mankind
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The
technological fallacy
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new
technologies will solve
mankinds
problems
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The fallacy of
formality
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all (p) is
® and all (q) is ® therefore all (p) is (q)
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The fallacy of
division
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A is a part of
X so all parts of A are parts of X
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The fallacy of
personification
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the tendency to
attribute human characteristics
to nature,
inanimate objects,
animals or God
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The fallacy of
explanation
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an explanation
of a phenomenon that
doesn't
actually explain anything significant
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The fallacy of
consumption
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consuming things is good for the
economy
and therefore good for
America
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The fallacy of
accent
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emphasis is
used to suggest a meaning
different from the content of a
proposition
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The fallacy of
labor
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there is a
fixed amount of work in an economy
to be
divided up among the total supply of laborers
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The "make work"
fallacy
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making work is
a strategy employed by all classes
of workers in an attempt to appear busy
and needed
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The fallacy of
distraction
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characterized
by misuse of logical operators to
distract
from the fallacy or invalidity of the
conclusion
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The mimetic
fallacy
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a written
work's (possibly unsuccessful) attempt to convey an emotional state or idea by writing in a manner that corresponds
to that state (successful attempts Far Tortuga,
Fanny Hill)
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The fallacy of
exclusion
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valid evidence
that would undermine the conclusion is excluded from
consideration leading
to "You can prove anything with statistics"
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The fallacy
of
statistical syllogisms
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a statistical
generalization that is usually, but not always, true
'most' or 'generally'
are used to indicate a statistical generalization
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The gambler's fallacy
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the incorrect
belief that the outcome of any particular event
in a series of independent events whose outcome has a fixed probability is
influenced by the outcomes of previous events in that
series
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The naturalistic
fallacy
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essentially consists of 1) making an induction, 2)
promptly forgetting that an induction is provisional and mistaking it for a
tautology (also known as "sloppy thinking")
and 3) blaming the sample rather than inductive error when observed
phenomenon differ from
expectations (also known as "counterproductive
pride.")
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The fallacy of
the clustering illusion
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considering
randomly-distributed data through cluster points. For example, a statistician
sees a region on a map where results appear to be clustered, draws a circle
around them, and decides the increased occurrence must be non-random and hence
significant
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The fallacy of
regression
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attributing the
change in mean from the regression effect to a cause as a way of lying with
statistics. Any time you re-measure a group chosen by its low mean (relative to
the population as a whole,) their mean will go up (all other things being
equal.) By picking groups farthest from the mean politicians can appear to be
"helping those who need it the most."
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The fallacy of
pre/trans (before/after)
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there is a
qualitative difference between a system that is at B, and a system that has
been at B, gone to A, and then come back to B again. The former is pre-A, the
latter is trans-A. To an untrained eye,
the vehicle looks the same but
after driving through the desert
the windshield and paint now have more
pits from windblown sand
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The fallacy of
control
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as we,
individually, have so little control over events we assume that events occur
randomly and are not steered by human
means
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The fallacy of
freedom
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even though we
have been conditioned by our environment and circumstances - parents,
school, church,
media, state, social status, income - we fail to
recognize our own conditioning
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See
Franz Capra
See
Carl Jung
See
Chief Seattle
See
In the beginning
See
Seperation from Nature
See
Original Sin
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