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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...

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...

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 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...

suggests X results in Y, yet the person in question insists Y was caused by something else. Its opposite fallacy (which perhaps occurs more often) is called...

penser (to think) – it could mean "I think... (something)"/"He thinks... (something)", "I think."/"He thinks.", or even "You (must) think... (something)."...

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...

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...

use this fallacy to deny that the group is associated with this undesirable member or action. "No true Scotsman would do something so undesirable"; i...

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...

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...

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...

high regard for the practice, Pope Boniface VIII was known to have an especial repugnance of Mos Teutonicus because of his ideal of bodily integrity....

bodies. This symbolizes the sting of their guilty conscience and the repugnance of sin.[citation needed] This may also be seen as a reflection of the...

has been repurposed to mean “a question that begs to be answered”. Ad nauseam is Latin and is associated with repeating something to a sickening or excessive...

Shitheads to the Nazis'". Gizmodo. Retrieved December 26, 2023. Anderson, Nate (September 1, 2011). "No Nazi comparisons? Sounds like something Hitler would...

hostile. Averse means having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, or repugnance. Merriam-Webster notes that adverse is commonly used as an attributive...