Chapter 2 Flashcards
(14 cards)
Self interested thinking:
when you a claim solely because it advances or coincides with your interests.
Save face:
Another form of self-interested thinking, ex: You make a wrong judgment but are too embarrassed to admit to it
What is a common flaw in reasoning?
not considering evidence or arguments against ur claim
Selective attention:
you notice When certain things and ignore others, for example you only focus on statements and evidence that will help your case not go against it.
Peer pressure
(all of its types)
1- Fallacy of appeal to popularity/appeal to the masses
2- Fallacy of appeal to common practice
3- Fallacy of appeal to tradition
4- Genetic fallacy
Appeal to popularity:
“a claim must be true because everybody is believing it”
Knowledge-by-acquaintance:
“Abigail knows the Ryerson campus”
Knowledge - how:
Rak knows how to skate
Propositional knowledge (knowledge - that)
Rak knows that Canada is falling apart
The 3 main ingredients to propositional knowledge
1- Belief
2- truth
3- justification
Subjective relativism:
The idea that a something is true only because you believe it is
ex: “I think it’s perfectly fine to skip voting if you’re not interested in politics, even if others say it’s a civic duty—what’s right for me might not be right for them.”
Subjective fallacy:
accepting the notion of subjective relativism and using it to support a claim
ex:
“This is my truth, and this is your truth”
Social relativism:
The view that truth Is relative to societies
For example: you can’t dress like a hoe in Saudi, but you can here
Philosophical skepticism:
The view where we know much less than we think we do, or that we know nothing at all
