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The Fallacy of Fudge Thinking
I'm often accused of not giving philosophers enough credit, but there is an argument that philosophers have pointed out and that's the used-mentioned distinction. I think this is at the core of a lot of fluffy thinking which is confusing the concept with the word describing that concept. So this happens a lot with, talk about God. There's a book that came out a year or two ago by Robert Wright called The Evolution of God,. It's about the evolution of the concept of God and people's ideas about it. And it comes up a lot. Yeah, and actually I'm glad that you stuck a good one for philosophers because in fact philosophy at its worst can really be damaging fluffy thinking