RE: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof for God existing?
October 31, 2016 at 10:55 pm
(October 31, 2016 at 10:41 pm)Mariosep Wrote: Dear atheist colleague Simon Moon, please change the word affirming in the line from you:
"This is the fallacy of affirming the consequent. Strike one."
Choose the correct appropriate word, otherwise you are not a critical reader much less a critical writer.
And you are betraying your limited grasp of thinking and writing on truths, facts, logic, and the history of ideas.
Suppose you make a write-up for the proof of the existence of atoms in objective reality outside of concepts in our mind, step by step.
(October 31, 2016 at 8:21 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: This is the fallacy of affirming the consequent. Strike one.
You are stating your conclusion, that a god exists, in your first premise.
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Why don't you try looking it up before making yourself out to look like a horse's ass?
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/afthecon.html
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