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The Philosophers Fallacy!? (Let's call it 'Blueprint Bias')

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I stumbled across a video where the talked about the "Philosopher's Fallacy". I had never heard about it before. And being a philosopher and someone who is passionate about (avoiding!) fallacies, I had to check it out. This video unpacks what the fallacy is supposed to be. I think discuss what the process should be in creating a new, previously-unnamed, fallacy. And I dig into what is really going on with the philosopher's fallacy.

In the end, I conclude that there are some other more specific named fallacies we could use to identify the errors, so it's probably not worth adding this arrow to our quiver. But if we did, I'd call it the Blueprint Bias rather than a philosopher's fallacy.

Fallacies

Part 5 of 11 in this series.

  1. Fallacies Explained: Why Bad Arguments Fail12:22
  2. The Principle of Charity: The Cure for the Straw Man Fallacy25:44
  3. The Ad Hominem Fallacy: Distracting Attacks12:34
  4. Don't Be a Sheep: The Ad Populum Fallacy Explained17:02
  5. The Philosophers Fallacy!? (Let's call it 'Blueprint Bias')14:49
  6. The Red Herring Fallacy: Don’t Get Distracted!19:16
  7. The Danger of Changing Levels: Fallacies of Composition and Division Explained16:03
  8. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie... The Slippery Slope Fallacy14:17
  9. The Most Common Fallacy? | Affirming the Consequent11:24
  10. Appeal to Ignorance: When “We Don’t Know” Goes Wrong10:49
  11. Tu Quoque Explained: The Fallacy of Hypocrisy15:14

Next in the series: The Red Herring Fallacy: Don’t Get Distracted!

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