Timeline for What fallacy is this? “This happened, therefore there must be good reasons for it”
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| Jul 9, 2020 at 13:47 | vote | accept | David Balažic | ||
| Jun 8, 2020 at 11:32 | comment | added | SantiBailors | I can't see the fallacy. We drive on a predetermined side of the road because the law says so. That's the good reason why that happens. Whether there are good reasons for the law to say so is not relevant and a different subject. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 21:01 | comment | added | johnDanger | This is common in evolutionary biology where even professionals mistake an evolutionary result as having a good reason for existing. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 19:36 | answer | added | mathreadler | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 19:31 | comment | added | Marxos | It's not a real fallacy. There is a good reason why everyone drives on one side of the road. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 14:40 | comment | added | HarryH | @ framontb (Jun 1 at 13:38) But nowadays most countries use right-hand traffic, so there must be good reason for it, I only can't find out which one it is. Unless that the gear control is always placed in the middle, so in order to use your right hand, you'll have to drive at the right side of the road... | |
| S Jun 3, 2020 at 17:32 | history | suggested | Cotton Headed Ninnymuggins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2020 at 17:27 | comment | added | framontb | @Chronocidal Oh ! How many opposing "good reasons" ! This is what philosophy is all about, isn't it? | |
| Jun 3, 2020 at 16:42 | comment | added | Chronocidal | While not a logical fallacy, this may have overlap with the principle of Chesterton's Fence (i.e. don't try to change something if you don't know why it is how it is - it may still be valid and required!) | |
| Jun 3, 2020 at 16:40 | comment | added | Chronocidal | @framontb Actually, it's the other way around: driving on the right started because of using whips for horses pulling wagons. As the whip was in the right hand, two wagons passing each other while on the left side of the road could get the whips tangled. Driving on the left comes from mounting a horse with a sword sheathed at your left hip (so you wanted to swing your right leg over it) | |
| Jun 3, 2020 at 16:26 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 3, 2020 at 7:07 | answer | added | Please stop being evil | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 3, 2020 at 5:42 | comment | added | Felix B. | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition | |
| Jun 2, 2020 at 19:22 | comment | added | vsz | ... and let's not forget the fallacy fallacy, when someone tries to use the fallacy in the question, to prove that something can't possibly have a good reason. | |
| Jun 2, 2020 at 15:33 | comment | added | Peteris | It's worth also considering the entirely opposite notion of "Chesterton's fence" - that often there is a good reason why something was implemented, so it's often worth finding out what that reason was before changing something just because you don't (yet) see any reason why it should be so. | |
| Jun 2, 2020 at 10:22 | answer | added | Nat | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 2, 2020 at 5:24 | answer | added | user46819 | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jun 2, 2020 at 4:07 | answer | added | Mark Andrews | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 2, 2020 at 0:12 | answer | added | Conifold | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 21:18 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 1, 2020 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhilosophy/status/1267561609607733251 | ||
| Jun 1, 2020 at 15:28 | answer | added | user37859 | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 14:29 | comment | added | Logikal | Everything is NOT a legit argument! Sometimes people talk without serious meaning. Even if this were in a context of a legit argument this may appeal to many fallacies. I would say argument from ignorance, non sequitur and post ad hoc ergo propter hoc. The latter is almost to the tee. Again I think in normal conversation the saying is NOT a legit argument & this is just small talk. Perhaps it is a way to keep the conversation going or perhaps the person who says it wants a reaction from someone. This is NOT a genuine knowledge or wisdom seeking moment when someone speaks like that. | |
| S Jun 1, 2020 at 14:05 | history | suggested | user14511 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Minor language issues. More tags.
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| Jun 1, 2020 at 13:38 | comment | added | framontb | I was told that driving on the left side of the road comes from old times where people used whips to make horses walk. So, if you drive on the left, hitting a passer-by is less likely because most people wield the whip with their right hand. Could there be a good reason after all? :-) | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 13:26 | answer | added | framontb | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Jun 1, 2020 at 13:22 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | Equivocating "reason" with "cause". | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 13:20 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jun 1, 2020 at 13:18 | history | asked | David Balažic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |