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saras

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11. They're exactly as applicable to faith as they are to love

Reply to cleanhippie (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 02:51 PM

Apr 2012

Fundamentalism - the assertion that religion is literal truth about the physical world - is wrong, in all religions. Most of them agree.

Without fundamentalism, faith never encounters the arena in which logic and its fallacies operate.

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Thou Shall Not Commit Logical Fallacies [View all] cleanhippie Apr 2012 OP

I'm sure some here will skepticscott Apr 2012 #1

That's awesome! RevStPatrick Apr 2012 #2

I'm pretty sure the great sky wizard doesn't like 2on2u Apr 2012 #3

Printing out a copy to hang on my wall. Speck Tater Apr 2012 #4

Doesn't that mean that "I shall stop practicing religion"? nt ladjf Apr 2012 #5

You left out the mind projecction fallacy. rug Apr 2012 #6

Who's "you"? skepticscott Apr 2012 #7

If I was talking to you I'd have said ignoratio elenchi. rug Apr 2012 #8

Yes, that would characterize skepticscott Apr 2012 #9

Actually, it fits #7 to a t. rug Apr 2012 #10

Ah, the irony. nt mr blur Apr 2012 #13

Speaking of ignoratio, you promised that you and the "we" you spoke of, will ignore me. rug Apr 2012 #14

Post removed Post removed Apr 2012 #15

Do you want that included because of your frequent use of it? cleanhippie Apr 2012 #23

You also left out Ad Hominem Tu Quoque. rug Apr 2012 #24

The only ad hominem here is yours, as "I" left nothing out of anything. cleanhippie Apr 2012 #25

They're exactly as applicable to faith as they are to love saras Apr 2012 #11

Logig and its fallacies operate in the real world. That's a pretty big arena. darkstar3 Apr 2012 #12

Various logical fallacies can actually, under some conditions, represent very good reasoning: struggle4progress Apr 2012 #16

Can you give an example? Jim__ Apr 2012 #17

Argumentum ad ignorantiam provides numerous examples: struggle4progress Apr 2012 #18

Your example is fundamentally flawed skepticscott Apr 2012 #20

According to the Chrysippian account of implication (namely, that A => B is synonymous with ~A v B), struggle4progress Apr 2012 #21

Except that's not skepticscott Apr 2012 #22

A musical interlude struggle4progress Apr 2012 #19

That's true, and goes beyond the "fallacy fallacy" listed Silent3 Apr 2012 #26