Post hoc propter hoc
Jan. 21st, 2010 01:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sathor"Because I don't like your music, it follows that it will never be popular"
Logical fallacy.
"Because I don't like your music, it must not be good."
Logical fallacy.
"Because millions of people like this music, it must be good."
Logical fallacy.
Value judgment.
I think I see why Confucius said the superior man tends towards the radical.
The radical is hard to attack. It has only so many points of vulnerability because it is not understood by a great many, and because it is obscure, it becomes ever more difficult to apprehend.
What is not radical is often understood and accepted by a great many. This means that when one attacks the foundations of the non-radical, he attacks and undermines many at once. This, of course, is unacceptable to the many, who then allow the existence of the mass itself to validate their perspective, and consequently this undermines the very validity of their perspective, as the belief no longer is rooted in intuition or logic, but rather ruled by emotion.
Logical fallacy.
"Because I don't like your music, it must not be good."
Logical fallacy.
"Because millions of people like this music, it must be good."
Logical fallacy.
Value judgment.
I think I see why Confucius said the superior man tends towards the radical.
The radical is hard to attack. It has only so many points of vulnerability because it is not understood by a great many, and because it is obscure, it becomes ever more difficult to apprehend.
What is not radical is often understood and accepted by a great many. This means that when one attacks the foundations of the non-radical, he attacks and undermines many at once. This, of course, is unacceptable to the many, who then allow the existence of the mass itself to validate their perspective, and consequently this undermines the very validity of their perspective, as the belief no longer is rooted in intuition or logic, but rather ruled by emotion.
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Date: 2010-01-21 06:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-21 06:48 am (UTC)Yes, I suppose some people aren't. Just depressing to see such a negative response in some cases. Not all, but some.
The feeling that society really has very little left that it all can enjoy as one continues to grow stronger as I get older, we're so divided.