(May 29, 2022 at 7:54 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: My vote for the most used logical fallacy among AF members is category error, placing the God of Classical theism (i.e. Being Itself) in the same category as a particular being among other beings. For example comparing the All with the tooth fairy.
I've been trying to explain this fallacy ever since I joined this forum, but to no avail. It's laughable that some members here don't even recognize it as a fallacy. Maybe some links to "serious" references should reassure them? Since they seem so distrustful of anything a theist might say
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-mistakes/
Even the anti-religious website RationalWiki has a "category mistake" entry
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Category_mistake
According to rationalwiki (not a christian or wahabi website, mind you), a category mistake happens when one confuses the properties of the whole with the properties of the parts, and therefore be guilty of committing two fallacies: the fallacy of composition AND the fallacy of division.
With this in mind it's easy to see why some atheists here don't recognize this mistake: it's so full of fallacies that it confuses them. An impressive heap of crap intended to flood good theistic arguments .
