Argunet Debates

Generalists tend to make fallacies based on erroneous generalizations.

1. Generalists believe that every moral judgement entails the application of a moral principle.
2. Generalists agree that moral judgement consists in recognizing a reason (feature) as morally relevant in a situation.
3. As long as generalists do not infer moral judgements, they infer correctly.
4. Generalists believe that every moral reason is a moral principle.
5. Principles are universal claims about all situations.
6. Particularists know that moral reasons have often different moral relevance and force in different situations.
7. Generalists often believe, that a reason is morally relevant in situations where it is not, while particularists know that.
8. People who believe that features (reasons) are morally relevant when they are not, tend to make moral errors.
9. Generalists tend to make moral errors, while particularists do not.