{"id":5431,"date":"2017-06-15T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/the-fallacy-of-objections\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T12:45:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T12:45:11","slug":"the-fallacy-of-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/the-fallacy-of-objections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fallacy of Objections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Via Vlastimil V.:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">There is something &quot;which may be called the Fallacy of objections, i.e. showing that there are objections against some plan, theory or system, and thence inferr<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ing that it should be rejected; when that which ought to have been proved, is, that there are more, or stronger objections against the receiving than the rejecting of it. This is the main, and almost universal Fallacy of infidels, and is that of which men should be first and principally warned.&quot; &#0160;Richard Whately, <em>Logic<\/em>, 1849, ch. V &quot;On Fallacies,&quot; p. 82. See <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.cz\/books?id=W5UXAAAAIAAJ&amp;dq=There%20is%20something%20%22which%20may%20be%20called%20the%20Fallacy%20of%20objections%2C%20i.e.%20showing%20that%20there%20are%20objections%20against%20some%20plan%2C%20theory%20or%20system%2C%20and%20thence&amp;hl=cs&amp;pg=PA82#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">How quaint our concern with the lore of logic while jihadi&#39;s &#0160;cut throats on London Bridge and leftist thugs shout down the sane at universities. &#0160;Logic books and books in general are of no use against barbarians and thugs. <em>Magazines<\/em> are much more effective.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Vlastimil V.: There is something &quot;which may be called the Fallacy of objections, i.e. showing that there are objections against some plan, theory or system, and thence inferring that it should be rejected; when that which ought to have been proved, is, that there are more, or stronger objections against the receiving than the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/the-fallacy-of-objections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Fallacy of Objections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fallacies-informal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}