{"id":65053,"date":"2017-09-02T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=65053"},"modified":"2017-09-08T11:19:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:19:32","slug":"spot-the-logical-fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/02\/spot-the-logical-fallacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot the logical fallacy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/r5SQnQjryzI\/maxresdefault.webp\" \/>So it turns out that the actor James Franco likes to talk philosophy! I recently watched a video of him talking to a lady named Liz Harman on the subject of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I try to be charitable when speaking about those who hold different views from my own. However, I have to say, having\u00a0heard many\u00a0arguments in favour of abortion, this lady presents one of the dumbest arguments I&#8217;ve ever heard!<\/p>\n<p>She clearly commits one of the most basic logical fallacies out there: the circular argument.\u00a0The really shocking thing, though, is that she teaches philosophy at\u00a0Princeton University! To quote a far wiser teacher, <span style=\"color: #000080\">&#8220;Logic! Why don&#8217;t they teach them logic in these schools?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r5SQnQjryzI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it turns out that the actor James Franco likes to talk philosophy! I recently watched a video of him talking to a lady named Liz Harman on the subject of abortion. Now, I try to be charitable when speaking about those who hold different views from my own. However, I have to say, having\u00a0heard many\u00a0arguments in favour of abortion,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[232,4453,4452,4454,3039,1728,1601],"class_list":["post-65053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","tag-abortion","tag-circular-reasoning","tag-james-franco","tag-liz-harman","tag-logical-fallacy","tag-pro-choice","tag-pro-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65224,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65053\/revisions\/65224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}