Sentence examples for genetic fallacy from inspiring English sources
noun
A fallacy of irrelevance where a conclusion is suggested based solely on something or someone's origin rather than its current meaning or context.
If they are philosophers, they will wheel out their rusty intellectual equipment and assert that those who think liberalism relies on ideas and beliefs inherited from religion are guilty of a genetic fallacy.
Cohen and Nagel (1934) contended that to take historical path into account as part of the epistemic assessment was to confuse historical questions with logical questions and thereby to commit what they called a "genetic fallacy".
As forcefully stressed by Field [ 31], we should avoid here the 'inverse genetic fallacy'; namely, the inappropriate attribution of mechanisms that may be sustaining cooperation to the explanation of its origin.
The origin of a hypothesis is of no relevance to how it fairs when tested in a model selection method (arguing otherwise would be committing a type of "genetic fallacy").
The new genomics center will take up four topics: risks of discrimination and a mistaken public emphasis on "genetic determinism"; fallacies about race; genetics and medicine; and stem cell biology.
33 Finally, it should also be acknowledged that, contrary to what some philosophers have claimed, 34 Habermas' arguments do not rely on the fallacy of genetic determinism, as he himself explicitly points out.
[ 46] The two US reports, the 2002 US President's Council on Bioethics [ 47] and the 1997 Report of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission [ 48], do, at least, discuss the fallacy of genetic determinism.
Although the completion of the Human Genome Project seemed to confirm the fallacy of a genetic basis of 'race', the use of race in understanding human genetic variation has become a central focal point in the development of tools in genomic research in medicine.
The most important outcome of the human genome project has been to expose the fallacy that most genetic information is expressed as proteins.
When the question of using DNA to establish Sen. Warren's lineage first emerged in 2016, Professor TallBear wrote about the fallacy of using genetic markers to establish tribal membership.
The scales were as follows: Young Earth Creationist Beliefs, Embryo/Fetus Beliefs (from Miller et al. 2006), Intelligent Design Fallacies, Social Objections to Evolution, Genetic and Evolutionary Literacy, and Relevance of Evolution (for items and scale reliabilities, see Table 3).
