Difference between revisions of "Fallacies Of Philosophy"
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Science has a superior approach, modeling. You don't "believe" in models. You accept or reject them based on whether they are accurate enough to beat out other models. Certainty is hardly an objective of science. Science is heuristic, not certain. | Science has a superior approach, modeling. You don't "believe" in models. You accept or reject them based on whether they are accurate enough to beat out other models. Certainty is hardly an objective of science. Science is heuristic, not certain. | ||
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| + | === Reifications === | ||
| + | The fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it were a real thing. Ideas such as "[[Inviolable Private Sphere of Rights]]" abound: indeed innumerable non-legal (moral) ideas of rights undergo reification. | ||
=== Philosophers are very poor at second-best solutions. === | === Philosophers are very poor at second-best solutions. === | ||
