fallacy

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Was Van Til A Philosopher?

By BK ⋅ May 23, 2010 ⋅ 61 comments

In response to a recent post on this site, our good friend Mitch from Urban Philosophy made the following comment: One can grant that Van Til was a philosopher, but they need not grant that he was a competent philosopher. A few comments later, Pierre-Simon Laplace shared with us his own perspective on Van Til’s [...]

Open Theism and Pacifism?

By RazorsKiss ⋅ February 9, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Molinism advocate and apologist Wes Widner quoted Open Theist Gregory Boyd earlier today, concerning non-violence. The quote was as follows: Any peace achieved by violence is a peace forever threatened by violence, thus ensuring that the bloody game will be perpetuated. This is cited (but not in the tweet, for obvious reasons) from Boyd’s The [...]

An Objection That Does Not Count

By C.L. Bolt ⋅ January 7, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Non-Christians can and do engage in activities using logic, science, and morality. Christians do as well. Presuppositionalists claim that these two groups can do so only because the world is what God says it is. The argument advanced for this claim begins with one of the accepted activities mentioned above (logic, science, or morality) and [...]

No Place To Stand Part II

By C.L. Bolt ⋅ December 8, 2009 ⋅ 7 comments

In response to my previous post Mitch has written this post. Unfortunately the tendency Mitch has to advance irrelevant arguments continues in this post as well. Presuppositionalism is immune to the criticisms Mitch raises against it because, among other things, the majority position in presuppositionalism which I also adhere to does not involve the claim [...]

An Example of a Red Herring

By C.L. Bolt ⋅ November 28, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

In the last post at Choosing Hats an example of the fallacy of Begging the Question was presented along with commentary that it is often helpful to have included in an apologetic arsenal a basic understanding of fallacies. Another popularly used fallacy is called a “Red Herring”. It may be summed up in simple terms as diverting [...]

An Example of Begging the Question

By C.L. Bolt ⋅ November 27, 2009 ⋅ 24 comments

It is often helpful to have included in an apologetic arsenal a basic understanding of fallacies. One popularly used fallacy is called “Begging the Question”. It may be summed up in simple terms as merely assuming the same thing one is attempting to prove. Do not misunderstand, there is nothing wrong with an assumption or attempting to prove [...]

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