(June 3, 2022 at 3:02 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(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
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.
Umm, no. You are lying again. A category mistake is about "confusing the properties of the whole with the properties of a part." As an example "Because no individual human being is powerful enough to affect the climate of Earth, anthropogenic climate change is impossible."
That does not apply if I say "tooth fairy has an equal amount of evidence for its existence as Abrahamic God - which is none".
And it still doesn't make someone wanting you to prove your god a fallacy.
What it all is is a burden of proof fallacy on your part which you are trying to avoid by projection fallacy.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
