RE: Fallacies & Strategies
June 5, 2022 at 7:39 am
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2022 at 7:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Ironically, insisting that omniscience is required is a textbook argument from ignorance. We can't confidently state that the conclusion "god is immoral" is false, because we don't know something. Nor could we, for that matter, confidently state that the conclusion "god is immoral" is false on account of some particular argument being fallacious. Bad reasoning can be leveraged in support of a true conclusion. If I had to pick which fallacy gets used the most, it's the fallacy fallacy, either explicitly or implicitly. As far as strategies go on that one - I like to try and remind myself to say things like "so if this is true, it must be true for some other reason". Inviting them directly to reassert their conclusion by some other means.
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