philosophical fallacy

is the failure to recognize that categories such as the mental and the physical are merely nominal concepts that were invented to help solve specific problems.

philosophers often take categories (such as the mental and the physical) for granted because they don't realize that these are merely nominal concepts that were invented to help solve specific problems. This causes metaphysical and conceptual confusion. Various examples are the 'ultimate Being' of Hegelian philosophers, the belief in a 'realm of value', the idea that logic, because it is an abstraction from concrete thought, has nothing to do with the act of concrete thinking, and so on.'

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philosophical fallacy