(May 11, 2013 at 9:07 am)Love Wrote: This is a blatant logical fallacy. You're attempting to make an inductive argument from analogy, but the analogy you have presented is poorly suited; it is a faulty generalisation. Theism, and making a case for such, is strongly linked to the philosophical discipline of epistemology. Murder, and making a case for such, bares no relevance to epistemology, but rather ethics/moral philosophy.I will agree that it was a bit of a stretch, But, I think he had a point. He was saying that murder is innately a defined term as wrong, and that any attempt to justify it by making a "case" for it, would be by definition, wrong as murder is a defined term. Theism, is only shown true to the bearer of the belief through faith, so to suggest that there is a "case" for it or that it can be proven to others, is equally absurd.
I do not thik he was comparing theists to murderers
Would you care to put forth an argument to illustrate that this is an incorrect assessment?