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Genetic Fallacy

  • Writer: Mike Burnette
    Mike Burnette
  • Feb 24, 2021
  • 1 min read

The genetic fallacy is a fallacy of irrelevance that is based solely on someone's or something's history, origin, or source rather than its current meaning or context. So, when someone accuses you of believing something merely because of your ethnicity, your parents taught you, or it resulted from where you were born, that is a "genetic fallacy."


Sure, you may have learned a truth or a lie through socialization, but something is objectively true or false regardless of how you learned it. For example: If God really exists, then he exists independently of whether or not your parents told about it, or whether or not you believe it.



 
 
 

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