RE: God as a monster
July 25, 2013 at 2:16 am
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2013 at 2:17 am by FallentoReason.)
(July 25, 2013 at 12:39 am)Michael Schubert Wrote:(July 22, 2013 at 4:22 am)genkaus Wrote: Association fallacy:
All dogs have four legs.
My cat has four legs.
Therefore, my cat is a dog.
Similarly,
Monsters exist outside nature.
God exists outside nature.
Therefore, god is a monster.
No, I think the Association Fallacy is where you mistakenly go from particular to general.
Martin Luther King was a great man.
Martin Luther King was a Baptist.
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Therefore, all Baptists are great men.
I think those examples you gave above are just flawed deductive logic.
Your above example is actually an example of flawed deductive logic, because deductive logic is going from the particular to the general as you wrongly said about the Association Fallacy.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
