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feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it; a settled dislike; a tendency to extinguish a behavior or to avoid a thing...

crucial cases...repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power fully to articulate it." in relation to bio-ethical issues...

appeal to possibility: If it can happen (premise). It will happen. (invalid conclusion) Something can go wrong (premise). Therefore, something will go...

relativist fallacy, also known as the subjectivist fallacy, is claiming that something is true for one person but not true for someone else, when in fact that...

values, so strong is her repugnance toward the idea of abortion, and so critical is the story of the male's self-serving reluctance to shoulder the responsibility...

of division is an informal fallacy that occurs when one reasons that something that is true for a whole must also be true of all or some of its parts...

computer and its speed and performance. In these precise cases, something may be more likely to be superior whenever it is new and modern, though not exclusively...

to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision. This heuristic, operating on the notion that, if something can...

repugnance may be the only voice left that speaks up to defend the central core of our humanity. Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder...

like something Hitler would say!". Ars Technica. Retrieved September 1, 2011. Look up godwin's law in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Listen to this...

said there was as something in me she liked better than in him. Felt repugnance to forming any connection with the other sex. In 1843, three years after...

"editors" present their opinions on whether or not to publish the book, with responses ranging from repugnance to revelation, and some disparaging both the novel...

corporate competition. This painful memory seems to have sensitized him to – and given him a repugnance for – what he sees as the marching ravages of "Progress...

first, that it is impossible to make sense of "there is thinking" without relativizing it to something. However, this something cannot be Cartesian egos,...

expressed repugnance for Indians and their way of life, recommending that they ought to be "civilized out of existence". (Dickens' essay refers to Dryden's...

of the Lord; whoever treats a person's face with repugnance treats the face of the Lord with repugnance. Whoever treats with contempt the face of any person...

bodies possess a repugnance to being separated one from another and from admitting a vacuum in the interval between them – that is to say that nature abhors...

their bodies, symbolizing the sting of their guilty conscience and the repugnance of sin. This may also be seen as a reflection of the spiritual stagnation...

attempt to win favor by exploiting the audience's preexisting spite or disdain for something else, it is called guilt by association or an appeal to spite...

populum (Latin for 'appeal to the people') is a fallacious argument which is based on claiming a truth or affirming something is good or correct because...