Fallacy

It's Hollywood magic.

Fallacy.

And that's not true.

It's a fallacy, dude.

No, no. It's called the broken windows statement.

Fallacy where, you know, somebody could say, OK, I describe this.

You have like a parking lot.

OK, I am the mayor of a bull excrement town and I want to stimulate economic activity in bull excrement town.

And I could see swapping out one of those A's for an I, or I just thought that those vowels were a little bit tricky.

And fallacious is related to the word fallacy, F-A-L-L-A-C-Y.

And that makes sense because fallacia means deceit in Latin.

The next word was hapless, which is simply H-A-P-L-E-S-S.

The broken window

fallacy.

Fallacy.

Yeah.

So we ought to do one on that.

You know what I mean? Sun

cost fallacy.

Fallacy, ad hominem, fallacy, logical fallacy.

Sun cost philosophy.

Sun cost philosophy.

... is, is just an absolute load of crap.

Fallacy.

[laughs]

So, yeah.

Lovely.

So in the Fallacy in the Wild, we like to talk about the Fallacy of the Week from a non-political perspective, and our first example this week comes from The Handmaid's Tale.

Oh, wow.

If you haven't seen The Handmaid's Tale, first of all, you should.

always good

it is it is and uh yeah could i come indoors now and switch off the lights

And it's time for the part of the show that this week at least is called the Save Database is Not a Logical Fallacy.

Because this was a little bit confusing to me.

Then they should be better men so that women will choose them.

You're listening to the Fallacies podcast, episode 12, Women Swearing Off Men.

We're talking about things like the 4B movement or women who go boy sober.

Are these simply the acts of someone who hates men, or are they acts of self-preservation?

Fallacies, fallacies, fallacies, fallacies, fallacies, fallacies, fallacies, fallacies.

Welcome to the Fallacies podcast, where we challenge and deconstruct ideas, attitudes, prejudices, misconceptions, AKA fallacies, about what it means to be a man.

And the quote of our show, "Often it is only after immense intellectual effort, which may have continued over centuries, that humanity at last achieves knowledge of a concept in its pure form by stripping off the irrelevant accretions which veil it from the eye of the mind," Gottlob Frege.

And speaking of irrelevant accretions, we've finally been practicing what we preach here on Fallacies.

Paco swerves through traffic-

... avoiding the cops.

Yeah, exactly.

That is sunk cost fallacy.

What is it? How can it be applied in business and in your personal life? So, Yao, when I say sunk cost fallacy, what does that mean to you? I have no idea.

Fallacy, false, fake,

right? What is the other one? Sunk cost.

Sunk? Cost.