Difference between revisions of "Fallacies Of Philosophy"
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=== Reifications === | === 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. | 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. | ||
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| + | === Naive Folk Models === | ||
| + | Many philosophical conundrums arise because of naive folk models which we know are not true. Ideas such as objects and identity are convenient labels that for some purposes suffice but are reifications. Boundaries cannot be clearly defined and time changes everything. I am not the same as I was a minute ago: it is merely a convenient folk model to treat me so. See [[A Is A]] for some examples. | ||
=== Incomplete Statements === | === Incomplete Statements === | ||
