Sunday, May 18, 2014

coining a fallacy.


Plantinga’s Fallacy Claiming that if S fails to have evidence for her belief that p, then S either doesn’t know p, or is irrational/unjustified in believing p.
Example:  “What’s your evidence that human persons have intrinsic moral worth?” 
“I have none.” 
“Then you don’t know that they do.”
“You just committed Plantinga’s Fallacy”
“Who the ef is Plantinga?” 

2 Comments:

Blogger Andrew M. Bailey said...

Do you think Plantinga commits this fallacy?

6:34 AM  
Blogger Derek said...

Not that I'm aware of. I meant the attribution in the sense in which Plantinga calls Sleigh's fallacy 'Sleigh's Fallacy'.

10:32 PM  

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