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j4 ([personal profile] j4) wrote2008-02-05 06:56 pm

Logic hates

Is there a name for the (il)logical pattern that goes something like:
"I believe/think/have experienced X. You believe/think/claim to have experienced not-X. Therefore you are deluding yourself"
?

I've been tagging it as "false consciousness" in my brain, but that's a bit of a misnomer.
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[identity profile] nja.livejournal.com 2008-02-05 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Bearing in mind that I have just walked a dozen miles and am sitting in Wetherspoons with the best part of a pint of Bath porter inside me pecking this out on my PDA:

There's a Latin or Greek word for suppressed premises which I can't remember, because I am not Gottlob Frege, But your suppressed premises (or those of your hypothetical arguing idiot) are that your knowledge etc is incorrigible and therefore X is certainly true. But how much of our knowledge is actually incorrigible?

I may not mean incorrigible. Time to haul myself up the hill I think.
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[identity profile] nja.livejournal.com 2008-02-05 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Also (I am now in the bath), David Hume's essay on miracles is relevant, I think (if someone reports a miracle then because miracles are by definition very unlikely it's more probable that the person has been deceived or is confused if I remember correctly).