Apologetics 315 are producing an audio version of Matt’s Fallacy Friday series. The Fallacy Friday Podcasts are released every Friday on Apologetics 315. You can subscribe using: • RSS Feed • Via iTunes • one-click to your feed-reader The Mp3 of Ad Hominem is here. To navigate the series in print, use the Fallacy Friday tag, to navigate MP3 […]
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Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: Ad Hominem
March 13th, 2011 Comments Off on Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: Ad Hominem
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Fallacy Friday: The Fallacy of False Cause & Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
March 11th, 2011 6 Comments
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This week I will look at the fallacy of false cause and in particular the post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy. These fallacies occur when one conflates the fact that two things occur at the same time or in close succession with the conclusion that one caused the other. Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc This […]
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Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: Assessing Arguments
March 6th, 2011 Comments Off on Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: Assessing Arguments
Apologetics 315 are producing an audio version of Matt’s Fallacy Friday series. The Fallacy Friday Podcasts are released every Friday on Apologetics 315. You can subscribe using: • RSS Feed • Via iTunes • one-click to your feed-reader The Mp3 of Assessing Arguments is here. To navigate the series in print, use the Fallacy Friday tag, to navigate MP3 […]
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Fallacy Friday: Division and Composition
March 5th, 2011 15 Comments
Today I want to look at two fallacies, the fallacy of composition and the fallacy of division. These two fallacies are related in that they both mistakenly confuse what is true of the parts with what is true of the whole. The Fallacy of Composition The fallacy of composition involves mistakenly reasoning that what is […]
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Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: Introduction & What is an Argument?
February 27th, 2011 Comments Off on Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: Introduction & What is an Argument?
Apologetics 315 are producing an audio version of Matt’s Fallacy Friday series. The Fallacy Friday Podcasts will be released every Friday on Apologetics 315. You can subscribe using: • RSS Feed • Via iTunes • one-click to your feed-reader The Mp3 of the introduction to the series is here; the first episode: What is an Argument? is here. […]
Fallacy Friday: Tu Quoque (But you did it too!)
February 25th, 2011 25 Comments
Last week I looked at the Straw Man Fallacy, today I want to explore the tu quoque fallacy. In latin tu quoque (too kwo-kwee) means “you too”; in fact, the phrase “you did it too” is a good, succinct account of this fallacy. A tu quoque occurs when one rebuts a particular criticism of one’s own position by […]
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Fallacy Friday: The Straw Man
February 19th, 2011 16 Comments
In my last Fallacy Friday I covered the The Genetic Fallacy, the error of arguing that an idea is false on the basis of where it originated from. Today I want to look at what’s known as the “straw man” fallacy. Origins of the Name This fallacy takes its name from a practice common in the […]
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A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
