ephemeral, fallacy of the

ephemeral, fallacy of the
Mistake made by a transitory being who believes in the immutability of things. The fallacy is so named in D’Alembert's Dream by Diderot, who gives the illustration from Fontenelle of the rose, who said that so far as any rose could remember, no gardener had ever died.

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