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Argument From Personal Experience Debunked
- Published_at:2016-12-18
- Category:Education
- Channel:Rationality Rules
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- description: An Argument from Personal Experience is an interesting one… because for the person who’s had the experience it’s remarkably compelling, but for the majority of everyone else it’s borderline insane… this, is the Argument from Personal Experience – Debunked. Sorry for my bad pronunciation of “anecdotal” – I’ll fix that for the future! ;) As always, this description is significantly more brief than the video (what you doing reading this people? Scroll up!). 1. Most, but not all, Contradict Reality: First and foremost, Arguments from Personal Experience tend to contradict reality. For example, if our aunt was to claim that reincarnation is real, all of the facts, laws, theories and evidence found in biology and psychology must be contradicted. 2. Most, but not all, are Mutually Exclusive: In addition to Arguments from Personal Experience contradicting reality, they also often contradict one-another, meaning that many of them are Mutually Exclusive. For example, our aunt’s claim of reincarnation is in direct conflict with other Arguments from Personal Experience, such as, for example, our cousin’s claim that the Christian heaven exists because he personally experience heaven when he was on life-support. In this case, our aunt and cousin are making mutually exclusive claims about the nature of death… they can’t both be absolutely correct, and hence, their claims are mutually exclusive. 3. They all commit an Anecdotal Fallacy: A third flaw to bring up, and one that is committed by all Arguments from Personal Experience, is that they not only commit, but they essentially are, Anecdotal Fallacies. To state it simply, an Anecdotal Fallacy occurs when a proponent uses a personal experience as evidence instead of reliable, falsifiable data, and that folks, is pretty much Arguments from Personal Experiences verbatim. 4. They all commit an Appeal to Emotion Fallacy: A second fallacy that all Arguments from Personal Experience commit, and one that is very similar to the Anecdotal Fallacy, is the Appeal to Emotion Fallacy. An Appeal to Emotion Fallacy is characterized by the manipulation of the recipient’s emotions in order to win an argument, rather than presenting factual evidence and sound reasoning. For example, if our cousin grabs us by the shoulders, looks us intensely in the eyes, and says, in his loud and aggressive voice, that if we don’t believe in heaven, and by extension god, we will burn in hell for eternity, he would be appealing to our fear… he would be attempting to manipulate our emotions rather than present us with a respectable and falsifiable argument, and therefore he would be committing an Appeal to Emotion Fallacy. 5. They all commit an Argument for Authority Fallacy: Yet another flaw committed by all proponents of an Argument from Personal Experience, is the Argument from Authority Fallacy. In general, an Argument from Authority Fallacy occurs when an authority is cited on a topic outside of their expertise or when the authority is not a true expert; but in the case of Arguments from Personal Experience, the authoritative figure that is cited is themselves… 6. Some, but not most, commit an Argument from Ignorance: And finally, as a last flaw that I’ll point out in this video, we have the classic Argument from Ignorance. Not all Arguments from Personal Experience commit an Argument from Ignorance, as many of them claim to be absolutely, one hundred per cent certain of their claims – and so they’re just contradicting reality and committing a myriad of devastating fallacies…no biggy. But those who aren’t absolutely certain of their claims very often appeal to ignorance by saying something along the lines of, “my personal experience can’t be explained any other way… how else did I see visions of my previous life? Reincarnation must be the answer!” Link to my Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/Rationalityrules/ As always, thank you kindly for the view, and I hope this video can aid you when you next debate against a proponent using an Argument from Personal Experience.
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