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The Existential Fallacy
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RE: The Existential Fallacy
(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.
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The Existential Fallacy - by Pizza - March 7, 2015 at 4:07 pm
RE: The Existential Fallacy - by robvalue - March 7, 2015 at 4:19 pm
RE: The Existential Fallacy - by Pizza - March 7, 2015 at 7:28 pm
RE: The Existential Fallacy - by Whateverist - March 7, 2015 at 7:59 pm
RE: The Existential Fallacy - by Mudhammam - March 20, 2015 at 5:17 pm
RE: The Existential Fallacy - by Jenny A - March 20, 2015 at 5:35 pm
RE: The Existential Fallacy - by vorlon13 - March 20, 2015 at 5:39 pm

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