Reification
This is an extremely common fallacy. We commit this fallacy everyday and don't even know it. Though, this fallacy is hard to avoid, it is, in fact, avoidable. Please, read carefully.
This is an example of reification: "Nature whispers evidences, and those evidences point to evolution." The term "Nature whispers..." is the fallacy of reification. Nature doesn't literally whisper, nature is just a concept, an idea, so it can't really whisper.
When you give an immaterial object physical abilities, you're committing the fallacy of reification.
What do I mean with all those big words? I mean, when you give an Idea, thought, concept, or imagination any ability that a physical body can do, you're committing the fallacy of reification.
If you don't understand yet... Here's another example:
This is an example of reification: "Nature whispers evidences, and those evidences point to evolution." The term "Nature whispers..." is the fallacy of reification. Nature doesn't literally whisper, nature is just a concept, an idea, so it can't really whisper.
When you give an immaterial object physical abilities, you're committing the fallacy of reification.
What do I mean with all those big words? I mean, when you give an Idea, thought, concept, or imagination any ability that a physical body can do, you're committing the fallacy of reification.
If you don't understand yet... Here's another example:
Nice and simple, right? This guy's concept of "evidence" cannot really "say" anything.
