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May 19, 2016 39 min

076 - The Genetic Fallacy

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We often overestimate and overstate just how much we can learn about a claim based on where that claim originated, and that's the crux of the genetic fallacy, according to the experts in this episode. The genetic fallacy appears when people trace things back to their sources, and if you traced back to their shared source the ad hominem attack (insulting the source instead of attacking its argument) and the argument from authority (praising the source instead of supporting its argument), you would find the genetic fallacy is the mother of both kinds of faulty reasoning. You might be in danger of serially committing the genetic fallacy if your first instinct is to ask where attitude-inconsistent comes from once you feel the twinge of fear that appears after a belief is threatened. In this episode, listen as three experts in logic and rationality when we should and when we should not take the source of a statement into account when deciding if something is true or false. • Show Notes: http://bit.ly/1XCvCdr • Patreon: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart • Donate Directly through PayPal: www.paypal.me/DavidMcRaney SPONSORS • Bombas: Bombas.com/SOSMART • Exo Protein: exoprotein.com/sosmart • The Great Courses Plus: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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