{"id":373,"date":"2014-12-31T15:18:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T15:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/?p=373"},"modified":"2014-12-31T15:18:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T15:18:41","slug":"i-thought-i-saw-a-pussycat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/belief\/logic\/i-thought-i-saw-a-pussycat\/","title":{"rendered":"I Thought I Saw a Pussycat"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Year’s Eve is named “Sylvester’s Day” in some countries, Israel included. The reason has to do with Pope Sylvester I who presumably died in December 31, almost two millennia ago.<\/p>\n

According to one legend, it appears that Mr. Sylvester was not so kind to the Jews. The contemporary outcome is a major ban by religiously-oriented people on New Year’s Eve celebrations in Israel… or at least an excuse for such a ban, derived from the existence of a Jewish calendar which should be used instead, you know.<\/p>\n

In the realm of logic fallacies, this is something between “argumentum ad hominem” and “affirmation of the consequent”. It uses both a personal attack on the celebrators, as well as reversing the order of a proof. What if Sylvester was born in Passover? Would it be a good enough reason to stop celebrating this as well?<\/p>\n

Celebrations or not, this is yet another example of the infinite elasticity of religious logic.<\/p>\n

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New Year’s Eve is named “Sylvester’s Day” in some countries, Israel included. The reason has to do with Pope Sylvester I who presumably died in December 31, almost two millennia ago. According to one legend, it appears that Mr. Sylvester was not so kind to the Jews. The contemporary outcome is a major ban by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,37,27,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-holiday","category-judaism","category-logic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}