IPE Award: Top Nutrition Blog 2015 - Culinary Therapy. The Institute for the Psychology of Eating has named my blog one of the 100 Best Nutrition Blogs of 2015. Thank you! Iâm both thrilled and honored.
Description of Special Pleading. Special Pleading is a fallacy in which a person applies standards, principles, rules, etc. to others while taking herself (or those she has a special interest in) to be exempt, without providing adequate justification for the exemption. This sort of reasoning has the following form:
pleading - (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding. law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; civilization presupposes respect for the law; the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order.