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Converse Accident

Go Jan 01, 1970 An exception to a generalization is applied to cases where the generalization should apply.

Accident

Go Jan 01, 1970 A generalization is applied when circumstances suggest there should be an exception.

Go Jan 01, 1970 Each of these fallacies is characterized by the illegitimate use of a logical operator in order to distract the reader from the apparent falsity of a certain proposition. The following fallacies are fallacies of distraction:

Biconditional (if-and-only-if)

Go Jan 01, 1970 The proposition P if and only if Q is true if and only if both P and Q are true, or if both P and Q are false. It is false only when one of them is true and the other false.

Negation (not)

Go Jan 01, 1970 The proposition Not P is true if and only if P is false. It is false only if P is true.

Truths

Go Jan 01, 1970 A proposition is true if and only if what it says about the world is in fact the way it is.

Propositions

Go Jan 01, 1970 A logical operator joins two propositions to form a new, complex, proposition.

Limited Scope

Go Jan 01, 1970 The theory doesn't explain anything other than the phenomenon it explains.

Untestability

Go Jan 01, 1970 The theory which explains cannot be tested.

Bertrand Russell on Christian Ethics

The Quotable Bertrand Russell (ed. Lee Eisler, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1993), p. 118.

Go Jan 01, 1970

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts ‘sins’ and others ‘virtue’ on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.