(April 13, 2014 at 10:56 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote: Here's a fallacy I've used. I don't know which it is.
If part of your brain is deactivated, you lose some of your mental capacities.
Therefore, if your entire brain is deactivated, you lose all of your mental capacities.
I think that's the slippery slope fallacy, that assumption when A happens then B will necessarily follow, without having done the research to properly conclude A leads to B.
A famous and fairly recent example was when the fundies were arguing against gay marriage, saying, "if we allow that, next we'll be allowing incest and beastiality and underage marriage, etc."
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
