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They start from a sad but important observation about the human condition and slide to an ambiguous, debatable claim about historical events and then to an almost certainly false thesis about a single, inevitable consequence.
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McLaughlin (1984, 1995) calls this style of argumentation 'argument by appeal to a false implied supervenience thesis' or, for short, argument by appeal to a FIST.
That's both partly true and false: They have theses, but they're quite different.
The philosopher Ned Block likes to say that the extended-mind thesis was false in 1995 but is true now.
So the credit thesis is false.
She concludes that the credit thesis is false.
It follows that the grounding-strike thesis is false.
Since the conscious will is not causal, the Free Will Thesis is false.
For Plumwood, the discontinuity thesis is false and any environmental philosophy that assumes it is conceptually flawed.
(Notice that it makes sense to worry about the danger of wishful thinking only if the neutrality thesis is false).
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