RE: The Existential Fallacy
March 20, 2015 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2015 at 5:38 pm by Jenny A.)
(March 7, 2015 at 4:07 pm)Pizz-atheist Wrote: I learned a new fallacy today.
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/existent.html
I'm going to try to put this into my own words. The existential fallacy is when a class is assumed to not be empty.
Your summary is accurate. But most of the people stating premises using this fallacy won't understand it. How about:
The ability to define a thing or things, does not cause that thing or those things to exist. Nor does defining a real thing or things cause the antithesis of that thing or things to exist.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.



