{"id":2140,"date":"2025-04-11T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T14:08:05","slug":"fun-with-fallacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2025\/04\/11\/fun-with-fallacies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with fallacies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2024\/02\/27\/fallaciagenesis\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1976\">months ago<\/a>, I made note of the <em>neosemantic fallacy<\/em>: \u201cthe magic of neologisms, which encourage [one] to infer that a new word refers to a new kind of thing.\u201d<span id='easy-footnote-1-2140' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2025\/04\/11\/fun-with-fallacies\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-2140' title=' Citing &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11229-023-04097-3&quot;&gt;Habgood-Coote&lt;\/a&gt;, who attributes it to Nguyen.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realized yesterday that it was just a flavor of the <em>fallacy of reification<\/em>. JS Mill characterized this as the tendency &#8220;to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or thing, having an independent existence of its own.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that giving reification a new name made me think of it as a distinct fallacy means that I committed the neosemantic fallacy in my earlier post. So, although it&#8217;s not <em>the autological fallacy<\/em>, it is an autological fallacy.<span id='easy-footnote-2-2140' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2025\/04\/11\/fun-with-fallacies\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-2140' title=' Finally, a fallacy post that isn&amp;#8217;t also a politics post!'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago, I made note of the neosemantic fallacy: \u201cthe magic of neologisms, which encourage [one] to infer that a new word refers to a new kind of thing.\u201d I realized yesterday that it was just a flavor of the fallacy of reification. JS Mill characterized this as the tendency &#8220;to believe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2025\/04\/11\/fun-with-fallacies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fun with fallacies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-fallacies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-yw","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}