- “They’re biased, so they’re wrong!” That’s a fallacy. (Call it the bias fallacy.) Here’s why it’s a fallacy: being biased doesn’t entail being wrong. So we cannot necessarily infer from one to the other. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/11072/the-bias-fallacy 8 comments philosophy
- “They’re biased, so they’re wrong!” That’s a fallacy. (Call it the bias fallacy.) Here’s why it’s a fallacy: being biased doesn’t entail being wrong. So we cannot necessarily infer from one to the other. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/11072/the-bias-fallacy 43 comments philosophy
- “They’re biased, so they’re wrong!” That’s a fallacy. (Call it the bias fallacy.) Here’s why it’s a fallacy: being biased doesn’t entail being wrong. So we cannot necessarily infer from one to the other. http://www.byrdnick.com/archives/11072/the-bias-fallacy 763 comments philosophy
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