RE: Fallacies & Strategies
June 3, 2022 at 4:51 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2022 at 5:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Not in the slightest, let alone necessarily. Not having access to the relevant facts is not a logical problem. A fallacy is a problem even if a person does have access to all relevant facts. What you're describing is the notion that people who don't believe in gods are wrong... not that they've committed some fallacy. A perfectly valid structure can yield incorrect conclusions. Happens all the time. Similarly, people seem to be certain that my constant comparisons of mythical whatsits, legendary people, and fairy tale creatures is wrong, somehow..but if it were, it's not because the comparison is invalid.
More an antitheist than a non theist, personally...if I did believe in gods I would be a maltheist - and I don't see anything bold in the idea that people believe what they do, or don't, and disagree in their relative states of belief, without having uniformly committed some logical fallacy or another. This place is a bit of a white elephant...but I doubt that most people, believing or otherwise, give the matter much thought at all. They're not trying to rigorously apply logic to a state of belief anymore than they might rigorously apply logic to their favorite flavor of icecream. As such, they're not really in a position to employ (or even have need of) a fallacy in the first place. Fallacies find themselves more when people feel compelled to argue gods in or out of existence, which is a completely irrelevant fact to my position on the matter, speaking of facts and relevance.
More an antitheist than a non theist, personally...if I did believe in gods I would be a maltheist - and I don't see anything bold in the idea that people believe what they do, or don't, and disagree in their relative states of belief, without having uniformly committed some logical fallacy or another. This place is a bit of a white elephant...but I doubt that most people, believing or otherwise, give the matter much thought at all. They're not trying to rigorously apply logic to a state of belief anymore than they might rigorously apply logic to their favorite flavor of icecream. As such, they're not really in a position to employ (or even have need of) a fallacy in the first place. Fallacies find themselves more when people feel compelled to argue gods in or out of existence, which is a completely irrelevant fact to my position on the matter, speaking of facts and relevance.
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