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| Title in English | On a fallacy |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Etika a věda: etická dilemata ve vědecké práci |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | moralistic fallacy; reverse naturalistic fallacy; Bernard David Davis; ethic of science |
| Description | Do you look in both directions when you cross one-way street? Or do you look just in one direction from where the cars should be be coming? If your answer to the second question is "yes", you have made a moralistic fallacy. You derived from statements about how things ought to be to statements about how things are. Even when you expect cars coming from one direction, they can sometimes arrived from the another. The world is not such as we wish it to be. Morallistic fallacy was described in seventies by American biologist Bernard David Davis as a mirror reflection of the naturalistic fallacy. He tried to point out the necessity of the difference between intentions or wishes and facts, the necessity to take care of the results of examinations regardless of our fears or convictions. While the naturalistic fallacy, the switch from descriptions of how things are to statements of how things ought to be, has been widely discussed, moralistic fallacy was left behind. But this fallacy leads to many problems. Some of the examples can be found in testing of intelligence, race and culture differences. |
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