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Academic sins terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define morality | Promoting absolute ideas - the belief that there's a particular sset of wrong and right values |
| Ideology | The belief that your ideas are always positive/right any anyone who goes against you is wrong |
| Partisanship | Prejudice in favour of a particular cause - Groups that tell you there's nothing wrong with their ideas and values (impossible because all groups are human made and all human groups are contestable) |
| Blind activism | Joining a group and trying to impose their views on others without knowing what you're advocating for |
| Brainwashing/indoctrination | the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically - often achieved through repetition |
| Emotional blackmail | Convincing people to agree with you/adopt you ideology through emotional arguments or threats - using emotions to bring people to your side instead of using evidence to explain your ideas |
| Editorializing | Making comments or expressing opinions rather than sharing the facts |
| Ad hominem arguments | Personal attacks against groups or individuals |
| Nobel cause distortion | Justifying imposing an ideology or joining a group because it appears to benefit the greater good - makes you look like a morally good person |
| Confirmation bias | Making truth claims with evidence that only supports your claim - providing no contradicting evidence |
| Strategic hyperbole | Taking a claim knowing it won't convince people and changing the wording (rhetorical maneuver) to make it seem more extreme - people tend to believe in/are motivated by extremities |
| Identity affirmation | Claiming your identity makes you more knowledgable about a subject or automatically makes your claim true (because your identity is a part of whatever is being discussed) |
| Partisan | Joining groups that preach an impenetrable truth (automatically accepting a claim as truth - not thinking critically about it) |
| What is a fundamentalist according to Morson and Schapiro? | A fundamentalist is absolutely certain that his system of thought gives him access to unvarnished truth and therefore doesn't waste time examining contrary evidence or engaging in dialogue with nonbelievers |
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