http://trilema.com/2021/the-naturalistic-fallacy/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 22:24:35 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2021/the-naturalistic-fallacy/#comment-164542 The deplorable generation on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Sat, 05 Jun 2021 16:46:28 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=101390#comment-164542 [...] kind of basis for a relationship in and of itself. People might (hilariously, and ludicrously, and everything else) get excited over hearing "the music of their youth", through the association it carries with their [...] [...] kind of basis for a relationship in and of itself. People might (hilariously, and ludicrously, and everything else) get excited over hearing "the music of their youth", through the association it carries with their [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2021/the-naturalistic-fallacy/#comment-164324 Mircea Popescu Sun, 30 May 2021 16:32:16 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=101390#comment-164324 "Only faith and faith alone" works. "Only faith and faith alone" works.

]]> http://trilema.com/2021/the-naturalistic-fallacy/#comment-164323 sorry Sun, 30 May 2021 16:30:13 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=101390#comment-164323 May I ask how would you translate sola gratia et gratia sola yourself? May I ask how would you translate sola gratia et gratia sola yourself?

]]> http://trilema.com/2021/the-naturalistic-fallacy/#comment-164322 Mircea Popescu Sun, 30 May 2021 16:07:47 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=101390#comment-164322 <a href="http://trilema.com/2016/why-is-that/#comment-117931">Quite</a> ; and that's exactly what explains the "difficulty", entirely self-secreted, in learning another language "experienced" (in the sense "the paradox" is experienced here) by they who aged (past 15 or so) on a single language. It "doesn't come natural" because their notions of logic, morals and whatever pragmatic and ethical heuristics have become dried on the structures of the one language they did learn. Much like long-term monogamous derps become socially disfacilitated, often to the point of actual disability, much like windows that should be openable by design but haven't in fact been opened in decades are more likely to fall off their hinges than actually open as intended, the speaker of a single language is apt to confuse the way things are to be said in that language with their actual thoughts. Quite ; and that's exactly what explains the "difficulty", entirely self-secreted, in learning another language "experienced" (in the sense "the paradox" is experienced here) by they who aged (past 15 or so) on a single language. It "doesn't come natural" because their notions of logic, morals and whatever pragmatic and ethical heuristics have become dried on the structures of the one language they did learn. Much like long-term monogamous derps become socially disfacilitated, often to the point of actual disability, much like windows that should be openable by design but haven't in fact been opened in decades are more likely to fall off their hinges than actually open as intended, the speaker of a single language is apt to confuse the way things are to be said in that language with their actual thoughts.

]]> http://trilema.com/2021/the-naturalistic-fallacy/#comment-164319 Andreyi Sun, 30 May 2021 15:33:19 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=101390#comment-164319 So it could be said the mistaking of that paralogy for a paradox is a symptom of something carefully not called "speech thought fallacy", whereby speakers of english as a principal or more often only language confuse the workings of language for the workings of thought? So it could be said the mistaking of that paralogy for a paradox is a symptom of something carefully not called "speech thought fallacy", whereby speakers of english as a principal or more often only language confuse the workings of language for the workings of thought?

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