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God as a monster
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RE: God as a monster
(July 25, 2013 at 12:39 am)Michael Schubert Wrote: No, I think the Association Fallacy is where you mistakenly go from particular to general.

Martin Luther King was a great man.
Martin Luther King was a Baptist.
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Therefore, all Baptists are great men.

I think those examples you gave above are just flawed deductive logic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy

Tell it to them.

Wikipedia Wrote:An association fallacy is an inductive informal fallacy of the type hasty generalization or red herring which asserts that qualities of one thing are inherently qualities of another, merely by an irrelevant association. The two types are sometimes referred to as guilt by association and honor by association. Association fallacies are a special case of red herring, and can be based on an appeal to emotion.

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Examples

Some syllogistic examples of guilt by association:

John is a con artist. John has black hair. Therefore, all people with black hair are con artists.
Jane is good at mathematics. Jane is dyslexic. Therefore, all dyslexic people are good at mathematics.
Simon, Karl, Jared, and Brett are all friends of Josh, and they are all petty criminals. Jill is a friend of Josh; therefore, Jill is a petty criminal.
All dogs have four legs; my cat has four legs. Therefore, my cat is a dog.
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Messages In This Thread
God as a monster - by Silver - July 22, 2013 at 4:07 am
RE: God as a monster - by genkaus - July 22, 2013 at 4:22 am
RE: God as a monster - by Michael Schubert - July 25, 2013 at 12:39 am
RE: God as a monster - by genkaus - July 25, 2013 at 2:08 am
RE: God as a monster - by FallentoReason - July 25, 2013 at 2:16 am
RE: God as a monster - by Michael Schubert - July 25, 2013 at 2:36 am
RE: God as a monster - by Zen Badger - July 22, 2013 at 5:23 am
RE: God as a monster - by NoraBrimstone - July 22, 2013 at 12:12 pm
RE: God as a monster - by paulpablo - July 22, 2013 at 12:19 pm
RE: God as a monster - by Minimalist - July 22, 2013 at 12:38 pm
RE: God as a monster - by Anomalocaris - July 22, 2013 at 8:10 pm
RE: God as a monster - by Bad Writer - July 22, 2013 at 4:13 pm
RE: God as a monster - by pineapplebunnybounce - July 22, 2013 at 4:22 pm
RE: God as a monster - by Tonus - July 22, 2013 at 5:09 pm
RE: God as a monster - by kılıç_mehmet - July 22, 2013 at 7:05 pm
RE: God as a monster - by Walking Void - July 23, 2013 at 12:54 pm

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