Another logical fallacy I'm rather fond of is that of "over- determinism".
Ah! Yes, I see what you mean. Usually the thing that's the main cause of something is...the thing that person wants to address. The weight thing is a great example. I remember reading something about that recently, for instance, and it pointed out that a lot of the things that people talk about like they're recent (like people being sedentary) are not. It's not just a case of this one thing changing so drastically in the past 25 years. It sounds good, but it's not really true.
But too often sloppy debate seems as much to be a resultof an inappropriate and doomed impulse to simplify life by the complexity phobic than to any preponderance of fact or conviction or wisdom.
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Date: 2005-09-07 04:53 pm (UTC)Ah! Yes, I see what you mean. Usually the thing that's the main cause of something is...the thing that person wants to address. The weight thing is a great example. I remember reading something about that recently, for instance, and it pointed out that a lot of the things that people talk about like they're recent (like people being sedentary) are not. It's not just a case of this one thing changing so drastically in the past 25 years. It sounds good, but it's not really true.
But too often sloppy debate seems as much to be a resultof an inappropriate and doomed impulse to simplify life by the complexity phobic than to any preponderance of fact or conviction or wisdom.
Well said.