... of our diet even if small. All of this brings us to the third problem with the caveman fallacy - most of the claims about the past ultimately, even if they were true (and they rarely are), have ... that the past is not as relevant as the present. But, it must be remembered that the Caveman Fallacy is different from the examination of our past to look for clues to how we evolved or for keys into ...

... and creationists on the planet. Many of the people who embrace the Bigot's Fallacy in this case are quick to argue that nobody has ever done any harm in the name of atheism. The argument (the ... conclusions that reason and evidence supports. The problem with the Bigot's Fallacy as atheists use it, or the other inferences discussed above, is that they transgress the virtue of reason – and ...

... rate of the device is 1 in 100, and so he/she is 99% sure to be a terrorist if the device rings. The fallacy arises from the assumption that the device failure rate and the false alarm rate are equal. ... (about 1/102). (Paca: So, practically, the camera is almost always wrong.) The base rate fallacy is only fallacious when non-terrorists outnumber terrorists, or conversely. In a city with about 50% ...

... states make a mistake he calls the pre/trans fallacy. According to Wilber, the non-rational stages of consciousness (what Wilber calls ... , Wilber claims that Freud and Jung commit this fallacy. Freud considered mystical realizations to be regressions to ... Wilber characterizes himself as having fallen victim to the pre/trans fallacy in his early work. Thus although the cultivation of anger and fear and ...

... people at Trivium Pursuit asked if I would be willing to read and write a review of the third edition of The Fallacy Detective, I was happy to do so. I will admit up front to enjoying their materials as a homeschool mom (now emeritus). :) However, I'd never read The Fallacy Detective before and I'm sorry I didn't use it in our homeschooling curriculum. What a great ...

... various personal and mental problems. All these explanations are variations on what I have called “the Root Cause Fallacy,” which has been committed time and again since the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001. The ... ” interpretations in the case of Major Hasan are just the latest example of the Root Cause Fallacy at work. It is time to abandon apologetics, and political correctness. Not all ...