Wisdom of repugnance
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The wisdom of repugnance, or the yuck factor, is the belief that an intuitive (or "deep-seated") negative response to some thing, idea or practice should be interpreted as evidence for the intrinsically harmful or evil character of that thing. Furthermore, it refers to the notion that wisdom may manifest itself in feelings of disgust towards anything which lacks goodness or wisdom, though the feelings or the reasoning of such 'wisdom' may not be immediately explicable through reason.
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- Repugnance
- Anti-intellectualism
- Appeal to emotion
- Ethical intuitionism
- Emotivism, which claims that all statements like "X is morally wrong" only express repugnance, not moral facts
- Moral panic
- Naturalistic fallacy
- Truthiness
- Uncanny valley
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