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You start off by criticizing the motives of someone in order to justify your criticisms of their…

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You start off by criticizing the motives of someone in order to justify your criticisms of their…

I said that Peterson doesn’t provide any justification for his generalizations because… he doesn’t. If it’s based on his clinical…

Donald J. Robertson
Jan 13, 2020
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You start off by criticizing the motives of someone in order to justify your criticisms of their…

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You start off by criticizing the motives of someone in order to justify your criticisms of their statements. That’s what we call the ad hominem fallacy in philosophy. I disagreed with what Peterson said about anger, and provided my reasoning for doing so. It wasn’t my intention simply to critique him for the sake of it but even if that were true it woul…

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