we need a word for the fallacy of claiming an intrinsic value to prop up a belief that used to be supported by a defeated empirical claim
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@tipsfromkatee@izs Many charities like Head Start. Drug war. Anti-HBD (gender & race). Circumcision/child GM. Doomsday cult the day after? -
OIC, so you have an empirical claim as the justification for something, and then that empirical claim is refuted, and so it's repackaged as an intrinsic value. It's like Popper's "Rationalist Turn" when a hypothesis is disproven.
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@tipsfromkatee I was into this tweet because of the example you'd share, but now it's because "thinking for a bit" is an intrinsic value.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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