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Full Idea
The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [which I name from the Greek for 'ostrich']
Gist of Idea
The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand
Source
Willard Quine (Lecture on Nominalism [1946], §4)
Book Ref
'Oxford Studies in Metaphysics vol.4', ed/tr. Zimmerman,Dean W. [OUP 2008], p.9
A Reaction
David Armstrong said this is the the fallacy involved in a denial of universals. Quine is accusing Carnap and co. of the fallacy.