Statement #236 Discussion
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Relativist Fallacy
AKA The Subjectivist Fallacy The Relativist Fallacy is committed when a person rejects a claim by asserting that the claim might be true for others but is not for him/her. This sort of "reasoning" has the following form:
In many cases, when people say "that X is true for me" what they really mean is "I believe X" or "X is true about me." It is important to be quite clear about the distinction between being true about a person and being true for a person. A claim is true about a person if the claim is a statement that describes the person correctly. For example, "Bill has blue eyes" is true of Bill if Bill has blue eyes. To make a claim such as "X is true for Bill" is to say that the claim is true for Bill and that it need not be true for others. For example: "1+1=23 is true for Bill" would mean that, for Bill, 1+1 actually does equal 23, not that he merely believes that 1+1=23 (that would be "It is true of Bill that he believes 1+1=23"). Another example would be "The claim that the earth is flat is true for Bill" would mean that the earth really is flat for Bill (in other words, Bill would be in a different world than the rest of the human race). Since these situations (1+1 being 23 and the earth being flat for Bill) are extremely strange, it certainly seems that truth is not relative to individuals (although beliefs are). As long as truth is objective (that is, not relative to individuals), then the Relativist Fallacy is a fallacy. If there are cases in which truth is actually relative, then such reasoning need not be fallacious. 
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540 Total Answer Attempts 41%
219 Correctly Popped Fallacies
321 Incorrectly Un/Popped
Most Common Responses42 - Burden of Proof 23 - Biased Generalization 23 - Appeal to Belief 22 - Hasty Generalization 17 - Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief 15 - Ignoring a Common Cause 15 - Misleading Vividness 14 - Post Hoc 13 - Fallacy of Composition 13 - Confusing Cause and Effect 13 - Ad Hominem Tu Quoque 11 - Appeal to Tradition 9 - Red Herring 7 - Poisoning the Well 7 - False Dilemma 7 - Appeal to Spite 6 - Begging the Question 6 - Appeal to Ridicule 5 - Personal Attack 5 - Fallacy of Division 5 - Appeal to Fear 5 - Circumstantial Ad Hominem 5 - Gambler's Fallacy 5 - Genetic Fallacy 4 - Appeal to Popularity 4 - Ad Hominem 3 - Appeal to Authority 3 - Peer Pressure 3 - Special Pleading 2 - Guilt by Association 2 - Appeal to Common Practice 2 - Appeal to Emotion 2 - Appeal to Novelty 1 - Appeal to Pity 1 - Appeal to Flattery 1 - Slippery Slope |
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