“Package-Dealing,” Fallacy of

Posted by mminnick 6 years, 9 months ago to Philosophy
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The link leads you to The Lexicon at the ARI. Seems very appropriate for all of what is going on in politics today, especially the Democrats (but not only them). There are several examples, here is the first:



“Package-dealing” is the fallacy of failing to discriminate crucial differences. It consists of treating together, as parts of a single conceptual whole or “package,” elements which differ essentially in nature, truth-status, importance or value.

“The Metaphysical Versus the Man-Made”


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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 6 years, 9 months ago
    The name makes me think how some people think ideas are package deals. If you accept one idea, you must accept a whole package. This is a form of tribalism. In this fallacy, if someone things one Catholic idea or one Republican idea, she must buy into a whole catechism or platform. This urge may have allowed people who lacked reason and science to work together in groups larger than a tribe. Now that it's easy to travel, talk, and ship goods anywhere and the economy rewards reason, I hope that reason will fill the role that tribalism filled in the times of when kingdoms, religion, and nation states were supreme.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 6 years, 9 months ago
    Package-dealing may be the biggest part of why government is bloated. Politicians agree to fund one politician's "pull package" so that they can get their "pull package" passed.

    Do you remember when government had to pass separate bills for each of their departments? Oh wait, legally they still do.
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