Get the Dotafication mug.To convert a movie originally filmed in standard 2-D format to 3-D after the fact in the hopes of garnering more miraculous profits. Becoming more common with the current popularity and success of 3-D films.
The new science fiction movie is being delayed for Three-Deeification. Did they learn nothing from colorization?
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The mistaken belief that every human concern can and should be reduced to logical form—that emotions, values, relationships, and experiences are all subject to the same rules as formal logic. This fallacy ignores that much of human life is not logical in the formal sense, and that trying to make it so distorts and diminishes it. Love doesn't follow syllogisms; grief doesn't obey modus ponens; art doesn't submit to validity tests. The hyper-logification fallacy is beloved of engineers, philosophers, and anyone who has ever tried to argue someone into love. It's the logic of "if you loved me, you'd do X," which confuses logical implication with emotional reality.
Hyper-Logification Fallacy Example: "He tried to logic her into staying: 'If you loved me, you'd want me to be happy. If you want me to be happy, you'd stay. Therefore, if you loved me, you'd stay.' She left anyway. Love doesn't follow logic, and logic doesn't capture love. The hyper-logification fallacy had failed, as it always does with matters of the heart."
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Get the Hyper-Logification Fallacy mug.The more formal and structurally deceptive cousin of rationalization. This fallacy involves constructing a rigid, self-contained logical framework—complete with axioms, definitions, and syllogisms—to systematically defend barbarism, injustice, or civilizational regression. Where rationalization makes excuses, logification builds a pseudo-philosophical system. It uses the tools of logic (deduction, categorization, consistency) but begins with poisoned premises (e.g., "some races are inherently less capable," "autocracy is more efficient") or willfully ignores vast human costs as "externalities." It is logic in service of inhumanity, creating a chilling, academic-sounding defense of the unthinkable.
Example: A Fallacy of Logification would be a tightly-argued essay "proving" the necessity of slavery using economic models that define human beings as capital assets, demographic theories about societal stability, and philosophical appeals to a "natural hierarchy." The logic is internally consistent within its own warped frame, but the frame itself is morally bankrupt. It uses the form of reasoned discourse to launder the content of atrocity, making evil look like an intellectual conclusion rather than a violent choice.
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