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- Why I Chose Philosophy as My Purpose
education, my auto-didacting ways aren't as exhausting or stressful, even though they can often be to some degree While degrees offer and reinforce prestige bias, they're often unnecessary for personal exploration. This has led me to devise the degree fallacy.
- The Philosophy of Work -- Profession and Occupation
Although I have no degrees, I am an auto-didact, and much of my expertise stems from experience. However, I find it very problematic because of the degree fallacy, which is an idea I devised. However, in order to be a philosophy professor, it is inevitable that one must have the relevant degrees That's the positive aspect of not needing degrees in this field.
- The Drug Lords Fallacy -- The Philosophy of Moritz Zimmerman's Redemption -- Why We Need to Work On Ourselves Over Getting Power
The Drug Lord's fallacy is the false assumption that success will grant you love and respect. However, the fallacy in his thinking was the belief he would be loved by his former girlfriend should Redemption: How the Drug Lord's Fallacy is Solved The Drug Lord's fallacy is one I am coining in this To quote Marc Wallace : Love is something that is built over time.
- The Horror of the Dimensional Merge Theory -- The Product of a Deranged Mind (And Why Minds Matter In Idea-Creation)
Again, I know this is technically an ad hominem fallacy, which says that concentrating on the person Perhaps this is why the ad-hominem fallacy came about in the first place; to allow certain voices, such I also believe in the degree fallacy, but I digress. In other words, its possible to become a credible source yourself with or without degrees and/or trophies
- Rationalism Versus Empiricism -- How Reality Is Understood
that there isn't a necessary correlation between wisdom and education, as I proved myself in a logical fallacy I devised, called "The Degree Fallacy". That is known as the anecdotal fallacy.
- Modern Technology, Materialism & Freedom: Using Our Assets
It could even make one more educated, and thus justify the degree fallacy. As presented with the drug lord fallacy, you aren't necessarily transformed by technology.
- Pre-Digital Elitism's Fall & Rise of Armchair Intellects
The Degree Fallacy. Access to gate-keeped information doesn't equate to expertise. On the other hand, the value of degrees should not be underestimated when the degrees offer relevance In today's world, Socrates might be told to get a job or a degree. As such I consider myself educated despite not having any degrees. If I believed in the falsehood of the Degree Fallacy as a necessary truth, I would've committed something
- On the Pursuit of Power -- How Mastery Can Be a Means To an End
As such, everything can hold a degree of power. Skill: Expertise in any field grants power, one that can distort our perception, as presented in the degree fallacy and the authority fallacy. We always have some degree of energy, and energy is there to be released, not repressed.
- How to Distinguish Intelligence From Wisdom
This leads to a variant of the appeal to authority fallacy , known as the degree fallacy. You could say everyone is capable of stupidity just due to the fact of how many fallacies they fall victim
- The Architecture of Solitude: Demystifying Loneliness and the Power of Isolation
Overriding the Biological and Societal Mandates Conventional scripture and societal conditioning decree This is a statistical fallacy. assumption that isolation equates to shyness or social failure is a manifestation of the Whole Person Fallacy Conclusion: The Symbiosis of the Grid The societal spectrum requires varying degrees of operational hardware
- The Art of Writing a Philosophy Article -- How To Master It
By decluttering your mind from distractions, unconscious fallacies and biases, you can hone your ability There are cases where the appeal to emotion fallacy does not apply, because it is possible to trigger Study logical fallacies, study biases. That is known as the anecdotal fallacy. I also contributed the discovery of several logical fallacies.
- On Reading and Writing Philosophy -- The Different Ways -- How I Became A Better Philosopher (And How You Can Too)
It would've added to my recognition as a philosopher to have a degree or two in that field. However, as my solitary contemplations birthed the degree fallacy, I realized my path to the truth is
- An Attempt to Define the Self -- The Flashlight Theory
The combined effort of our cognition is what enables a certain degree of understanding , which itself article by Rupak Shah You therefore cannot say that reading isn't a passive activity entirely if some degree construct the "ego," that fleeting sense of self, which can easily be reduced using both logic and logical fallacies such as the Victory Fallacy.
- The Races of Life -- The Philosophy of Staying Ahead
In order to stay as much as possible on the top on these various degrees of life’s meritocracy, you have Will care more for your thoughts (despite the ad-hominem fallacy). As an autist with no degrees, it's what I did, am doing, and will continue doing!
- Reclaiming Mastery: Beyond Misconceptions and Institutional Gatekeeping
However, in a modern world entirely dominated by certificates, degrees , and honorary titles, society the uncredentialed expert while blindly trusting the certified novice, it commits a massive logical fallacy The Fallacy of the Single Path The intense dislike for the self-made master stems from the fact that
- How To Understand the Self Beyond the External World
This fallacy may lead to a very drastic, and even underestimating conclusion: that the concept of individualism give a few possible examples for potentially autonomous traits, which, of course, exist in various degrees Bodily functions: All organisms share some common functions in general, to a certain degree for each we're dead), physical capabilities which can exist without external demonstration – all to a certain degree not discussing specific bodily functions, but those we have in common on one side, but to a certain degree
- How to Become a Philosopher -- Philosophy as Art and Science
All you need to be a philosopher is a rational human being who is aware of logical fallacies , is an You need to come up with ideas, mention problems in existing systems, point out logical fallacies, and If there's something I recommend for you to study as a philosopher, it's at least some fallacies in logic the main force of philosophy, you must strive to become the most logical person you can be and detect fallacies I myself took a course online on logical fallacies.
- 7 Notes About Philosophy -- How To Understand Philosophy With Greater Clarity
The critique of academic philosophy is bold and thought-provoking, challenging the notion that a degree why I made a list of a few things that should be considered when it comes to philosophy: An Academic Fallacy You don’t have to have a degree in philosophy to be a philosopher. That's while getting a degree requires you to only study existing material. It makes such a degree not only not exactly necessary, but also fairly impractical for research I can
- Why The Need for Purpose Can Be a Liability
John Duran (Background music) Why The Need for Purpose Can Be a Liability To avoid fallacious generalizations It can be cultivated to such a degree that your importance, and the recognition of your work, outlives
- The Day Philosophy Would End (And Why It's Unlikely)
Therefore, falsehoods or fallacies should not be seen as terrible things when philosophizing; Things Any content focusing on the anecdotal fallacy, serving as the weakest type of evidence (which I intend deception of information by unquestioned ulterior motives , along with a lack of understanding of logical fallacies In other words, will we always be ignorant to some degree, no matter how much knowledge and insight we If we will always remain ignorant to some degree, then philosophy itself would be quite Sisyphean.
- On The Path of Philosophership -- Recognition
A degree is only relevant if you intend to work in academia. for studying the truth, is the very activity that, even after years, can eventually get yourself a degree Does any of this require a degree? Only if you intend to be dominant in academia. your content to those who are too close-minded, and they might "sin" what I call "The Whole Person Fallacy
- The Dumb Donkey's Fable -- For the Tougher -- How To Understand and Navigate Stupidity and Ignorance
However, to deem an individual animal as either smart or stupid is a product of The Whole Person Fallacy Or the Whole Donkey Fallacy? They see situations in degrees that don't really exist beyond their perception, whether these degrees
- On the Path to Philosphership: Being Proven Wrong
Because our identities, to some degree, are built on our understanding of ourselves. One that is least to resort to unnecessary biases and fallacies.
- Why Good Philosophers Are Not People Pleasers
criticism to improve upon our own work; refine the present material, and inform us of our mistakes and fallacies The problem with philosophy as a profession is that one will inevitably have to cause a certain degree Do not "give power" to the severely irrational, who have no clue about their own logical fallacies. And as we know, stereotypical thinking is very fallacious, when it comes to the understanding of the Although impressive, these statistics are nothing but an indication of the "Ad Populum" fallacy -- the
- How to Determine the Existence of Gods
not be broken, but what are the odds the "average" person will know when they are making a logical fallacy It is quite embarrassing to see how regularly these two fallacies are made. If we talk about gods and logical fallacies, perhaps the biggest logical fallacy when it comes to gods is the Ad Infinitum fallacy. of magic was created in order to explain the unknown, and that the Abrahamic religions are based on fallacious


























