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Reification

This is a very common fallacy. We commit this fallacy everyday and most of us don't even realize it. Though, this fallacy is hard to avoid, it is, in fact, avoidable. This is an example of reification: "nature whispers evidences, and those evidences point to evolution." The phrase "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 attributes, 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.

Of course, this is not a logical fallacy when used metaphorically. But metaphors only go so far.


If you don't understand yet, here's another example: 
Picture
(By Answers in Genesis)
Nice and simple, right? This guy's concept of "evidence" cannot really "say" anything.

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