"'They’re biased, so they’re wrong!' That’s a fallacy. We can call it the bias fallacy. Here’s why it’s a fallacy: being biased doesn’t entail being wrong. So when someone jumps from the observation that So-and-so is biased to the conclusion that So-and-so is wrong, they commit the bias fallacy. It’s that simple.
In this post, I’ll give some examples of the fallacy, explain the fallacy, and then suggest how we should respond to the bias fallacy."
https://byrdnick.com/archives/11072/the-bias-fallacy
"'They’re biased, so they’re wrong!' That’s a fallacy. We can call it the bias fallacy. Here’s why it’s a fallacy: being biased doesn’t entail being wrong. So when someone jumps from the observation that So-and-so is biased to the conclusion that So-and-so is wrong, they commit the bias fallacy. It’s that simple.
In this post, I’ll give some examples of the fallacy, explain the fallacy, and then suggest how we should respond to the bias fallacy."
https://byrdnick.com/archives/11072/the-bias-fallacy
"'They’re biased, so they’re wrong!' That’s a fallacy. We can call it the bias fallacy. Here’s why it’s a fallacy: being biased doesn’t entail being wrong. So when someone jumps from the observation that So-and-so is biased to the conclusion that So-and-so is wrong, they commit the bias fallacy. It’s that simple.
In this post, I’ll give some examples of the fallacy, explain the fallacy, and then suggest how we should respond to the bias fallacy."
https://byrdnick.com/archives/11072/the-bias-fallacy
If your objection to something is just “it's biased”, then you do not yet have an objection.
I mention #theBiasFallacy in "Strategic Reflectivism":
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
and explain it on my #blog: byrdnick.com/archive...
#logic #argumentation #debate #edu #criticalThinking