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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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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holy crap this is some kind of record for resumed conversation
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@sarahdoingthing@tipsfromkatee@izs Is this kinda like fake consequentialism?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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