mistakes to avoid Flashcards
1
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appeal to origins
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- its a mistake to assume that a belief’s originating reasons are epistemic reasons too
- many factors influence what you believe and they don’t all have to be epistemic
2
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personalizing reasons
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- it’s a mistake to personalize reasons by treating them as if they belonged to someone
- epistemic reasons are universal, objective
3
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appeal to relativism
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- its a mistake to assume that the truth is relative
- you should assume that realism is the appropriate attitude unless you have powerful reasons not to
4
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appeal to emotion
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- its a mistake to base our beliefs only on our emotions
- emotional reasons are NOT epistemic
- its a mistake to allow emotions to prevent us from collecting or assessing the evidence we need to make the decisions we must
5
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privileging available evidence
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- its a mistake to assume that evidence that we currently have is more acceptable or more sufficient than evidence that we might collect
6
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appeal to traditions
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- its a mistake to believe or do something simply because that belief or practice is traditional
