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    Bulverism

    Bulverism

    Description: This is a combination of circular reasoning and the genetic fallacy. It is the assumption and assertion that an argument is flawed or false because of the arguer's suspected motives, social identity, or other characteristic associated with the arguer's identity.

    Logical Form:

    Person 1 makes argument X.

    Person 2 assumes person 1 must be wrong because of their suspected motives, social identity, or other characteristic associated with their identity.

    Therefore, argument X is flawed or not true.

    Example #1:

    Martin: All white people are not racists.

    Charlie: Yes they are. You just believe that because you are white.

    Explanation: Charlie is making two errors: 1) he is assuming that Martin must be wrong and 2) he is basing that assumption on an accidental feature of Martin—the amount of pigmentation in his skin....

    But to CS Lewis's explanation. Keep in mind, for context, that he wrote this 1941.

    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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    I answer Lewis's question in the affirmative, as long as I'm not forced to embrace a specific religious rubric or theology to do so. The validity of reason rests on a transcendent, mystic reality. But I don't make that as a general philosophical claim, applicable to all others - only as a personal, existential claim based on my own life experience.

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