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Re:Writing and the narrative fallacy (2018) by bryanrasmussen on Sunday May 24, 2020 @03:58PM (#23294235)
I think this means we're in agreement that it is probably so, but not necessarily so?

But still enough in the air to refrain from claiming biological inclination.

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Re:Writing and the narrative fallacy (2018) by post_below on Sunday May 24, 2020 @06:00PM (#23295232)
Sure, but biological inclination is the best available explanation to the degree that I'm not sure it has any competition at this point.

Asking for proof is useful, but it's a token exercise if you don't have an alternative explanation.

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Re:Writing and the narrative fallacy (2018) by bryanrasmussen on Monday May 25, 2020 @03:52AM (#23298995)
the reason that I don't see it as a token exercise is that ascribing things to biological inclination seems to be its own easy to fall into fallacy. So I like to avoid it while still conceding it may very well be the case in particular cases.
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