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Are You Thinking Like an Atheist?
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.67″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] As anyone who attends the Southern Evangelical Seminary National Conference on Christian Apologetics knows, SES does its best to offer well-rounded apologetics training that meets the needs of the novice while also challenging those who are more advanced. Our goal is to challenge the status quo of popular […]
Shifting the Burden
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.67″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] The informal logical fallacy of shifting the burden of proof occurs when a person attempts to evade the task of demonstration by diverting that requirement to another person in conversation. Typically this fallacious tactic is used when a person is ill-equipped to defend his position, or simply holds […]
The Non-sequitur
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.67″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] In the world of fallacious argumentation, the non-sequitur is the father of all fallacies. It simply means “it does not follow.”¹ That is, the conclusion does not follow from the preceding premises or reasoning. Given this broad scope, you might think, every invalid argument should fall under this. […]
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Quoting Out of Context
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.67″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”] Informal fallacies abound in social conversation, official debates, and even perhaps in how one even attempts to convince himself at times.However, fallacious mistakes in communication, though often rhetorically powerful, can be recognized once pointed out or given a name, as it were. This naming helps to eliminate the […]
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
Defining the Fallacy Literally translated “After this, therefore caused by this,” the post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy is a fallacy of causal induction.¹ Fallacies of induction are committed when one incorrectly infers a conclusion or consequence of some kind. The post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy is committed when one infers that something is the […]