RE: Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
July 26, 2017 at 8:39 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2017 at 8:39 pm by RoadRunner79.)
(July 26, 2017 at 8:10 pm)Lutrinae Wrote:(July 26, 2017 at 6:04 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Actually, claiming that something is false because it is old, or better because it is new; is a fallacy.
If anything, it is not false due to its age but rather due to its primitiveness; especially, during a time when some of us have intellectually surpassed the mentality of irrelevant mythologies.
Just because there is bad thinking, doesn't mean that it is false. It means it is a bad reason for the belief. I agree, there are a number of things that we are more knowledgeable about. And we have better access than ever before. However the key to most fallacies, is they ignore the reasons and evidence, and instead focus on something of no or little consequence. It doesn't follow, that because it is old, or because you believe the person is more primitive that they are incorrect and the new or more advanced is right. It is about the reasons for the claim. When the claim is made doesn't matter. Similar, would be some people, who think that older necessarily means better. We do live in a cost pinching, throw away society you know.
I would say that because it's old, or they where more primitive is more of an explanation, not a reason for the conclusion.
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