Implementation-classification confusion (strategy label) eg “if you classify this as an emergency that must mean you support taking immediate action”
Semantic-normative confusion (label value) eg “if you classify this as art you must think it is valuable”
Empirical-procedural confusion (fact strategy) eg “recidivism rates are highest among those without stable employment, therefore job training programs are the most important intervention”
Some of these follow from the “central fallacy,” e.g. just because penguins are birds doesn’t mean they’re typical birds, which typically can fly. I nicknamed this “semantic bounty” in a short post—if you spend 45 minutes convincing somebody something is X, e.g. X = discriminatory because X is probably gonna be something values-infused rather than feel like an arbitrary label, you’re more likely to win the argument that something is technically X and therefore doesn’t get a whole lot of properties of X, when you were hoping you get all the properties of X as a bounty for your opponent conceding the is-ness.
Type errors:
Map-territory confusion (labels facts)
Is-ought confusion (fact value)
Means-ends confusion (value strategy)
Implementation-classification confusion (strategy label) eg “if you classify this as an emergency that must mean you support taking immediate action”
Semantic-normative confusion (label value) eg “if you classify this as art you must think it is valuable”
Empirical-procedural confusion (fact strategy) eg “recidivism rates are highest among those without stable employment, therefore job training programs are the most important intervention”
Some of these follow from the “central fallacy,” e.g. just because penguins are birds doesn’t mean they’re typical birds, which typically can fly. I nicknamed this “semantic bounty” in a short post—if you spend 45 minutes convincing somebody something is X, e.g. X = discriminatory because X is probably gonna be something values-infused rather than feel like an arbitrary label, you’re more likely to win the argument that something is technically X and therefore doesn’t get a whole lot of properties of X, when you were hoping you get all the properties of X as a bounty for your opponent conceding the is-ness.