Ah! OK. So, it's not physics envy, it's authority envy. There's still something off about what (I think) you're saying, though. It strikes me that NONE of the physicists I've ever talked to speak with the kind of pseudo-authority the psychologists I've talked to speak with. I.e. in my (limited) experience, psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists in general, speak with authority. Physicists don't talk that way (again, in my experience). They don't say, for a lame example, "Classical mechanics is false." They use hedge words like "in some circumstances" or "to some approximation" or whatever. And given that the physcicists don't *assert* the authority those you're claiming are "envious" of that authority, it *still* feels to me like fallacious reasoning, rather than an actual envy.
It's totally reasonable to envy something someone actually has, like a muscle car or something. But can you really envy something another person does NOT have ... and, indeed, denies having if pressed? They're really just trying to trick you into believing whatever nonsense they spout. They're not really envious of the work physicists do. I'm not confident that their fallacy is appeal to authority, though. I think it's something else ... appeal to *mystery* or somesuch. I need to review the fallacies to see if there's one that fits better than appeal to authority. On 7/7/20 10:49 AM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: > That physicists have such authority is what psychologists have envied. -- ☣ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
