The nirvana fallacy is the informal fallacy of comparing actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives. It can also refer to the tendency to...
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contain fallacies. Because of their variety, fallacies are challenging to classify. They can be classified by their structure (formal fallacies) or content...
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Nirvana (/nɪərˈvɑːnə/ neer-VAH-nə, /-ˈvænə/ -VAN-ə, /nɜːr-/ nur-; Sanskrit: निर्वाण nirvāṇa [nɪrʋaːɳɐ]; Pali: nibbāna; Prakrit: ṇivvāṇa; literally, "blown...
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Gold plating (software engineering) If it ain't broke, don't fix it Nirvana fallacy Satisficing Utopia Wabi-sabi Worse is better KISS Principle Voltaire...
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Moving the goalposts (redirect from Moving goalpost fallacy)
normality Destabilisation God of the gaps Mind games Motte-and-bailey fallacy Nirvana fallacy No true Scotsman "They Just Keep Moving the Line", song Overton...
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Wishful thinking (section As a fallacy)
Ideology Just-world hypothesis Magical thinking Motivated reasoning Nirvana fallacy Optimism bias Perception Pollyanna principle Psychic equivalence Self-deception...
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Creeping normality Door-in-the-face technique Foot-in-the-door technique Nirvana fallacy Overton window Political suicide Predatory pricing Selling technique...
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Fact -- Fallacies of definition -- Fallacy -- Fallacy of distribution -- Fallacy of four terms -- Fallacy of quoting out of context -- Fallacy of the four...
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Coase, Aaron Director, and George Stigler. Demsetz coined the term "nirvana fallacy" in 1969. The 1972 Demsetz and Armen Alchian article Production, Information...
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Noble Virtues Nino Cocchiarella Ninth Letter (Plato) Nirvana Nirvana (Jainism) Nirvana fallacy Nishi Amane Nishida Kitaro Nishida Kitarō Nishitani Keiji...
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Nihilism (section Nirvana and nihilism)
'reappear,' etc. with respect to the Buddha and Nirvana by stating that a "Person who has attained the goal [nirvana] is thus indescribable because [they have]...
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Carey, Vidyavagish, and Roy created a religious work known as the "Maha Nirvana Tantra" (or "Book of the Great Liberation") scholars like John Duncan Derrett...
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kind of comprehensive illusionist ontology that sees all dharmas, even nirvana and Buddhahood, as being empty and like an illusion. This illusionism was...
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S2CID 242423709. Lin, Derek (29 December 2016), "The "Ancient Child" Fallacy", Taoism.net Ames, Roger T.; Kaltenmark, Max (2009). "Laozi". Britannica...
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rebirth, world, karmas and finally liberated of body as well. This is called nirvana or moksha. Jainism does not teach the dependency on any supreme being for...
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versions of these theories have been widely rejected as a single-cause fallacy. In other words, the modern deterministic theories attempt to explain how...
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would lead us there. Ājīvikas further considered the karma doctrine as a fallacy. Ājīvika metaphysics included a theory of atoms, which was later adapted...
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mountain out of a molehill Monkey mind Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled Reification (fallacy) Nanananda 1997, p. 4 Nanananda 1997 Gangodawila, Chandima, Papañca to...
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dukkha and samsara through diverse range of spiritual practices (moksha, nirvana). They differ in their assumptions about the nature of existence as well...
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to emancipate from the karma-bandha. In Jainism, nirvana and moksha are used interchangeably. Nirvana represents annihilation of all karmas by an individual...
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khyati – the pervasion of the little self (intellect). Yoga Vasistha - Nirvana Prakarana - Uttarardha (Volume - 6) Page 107 by Swami Jyotirmayananda Samkhya...
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ultimate spiritual goal, and call the liberation by terms such as moksha, nirvana, mukti and kaivalya. However, the Buddhist, Hindu and Jain traditions have...
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Spiritualism, and Christian Science Discussed -- The Theory of Reaction a Fallacy -- Ineffectiveness of the Spiritualistic Idea". The New York Times. 29...
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1986 Sound City Session)". Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl later explained “I think it represented something bigger. Nirvana didn’t want to turn into Guns...
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unfalsifiable beliefs based on naive acceptance of previous notions and fallacies. Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre put Nietzsche in a high place in the history...
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Bodhisattvas are described by the Lotus Sutra as those who "hope to win final Nirvana for all beings—for the sake of the many, for their weal and happiness,...
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Verlagsanstalt, 1999. Thornton, Elizabeth. Freud and Cocaine: The Freudian Fallacy. London: Blond and Briggs, 1983, pp. 45–46. Jones, E., 1953, pp. 86–108...
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context of gun debates it becomes misdirection and can be considered a fallacy. The statement does not say anything about gun control. It further only...
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factor that prevents them from moving on (to transmigration, non-being, nirvana, or swarga or naraka, depending on tradition). This could be a violent...
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function of cosmic principles. Ājīvika considered the karma doctrine as a fallacy. Ājīvikas were atheists and rejected the authority of the Vedas, but they...
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