The Formally-Correct Fallacy a Common Mistake
The formally-correct fallacy is thinking just because the form of logic is valid the logic is sound.
Sound logic must have both valid form and true premises. Some students come out of logic classes thinking if they reduce a statement to a syllogism with valid form they automatically prove the conclusion is true. Some classes even reduce logic to a symbolic language. It’s called symbolic logic. It looks like some kind of advanced math. You could convert any statement to this symbolic language. Teachers tell you this symbolic language avoids ambiguity. However, I have witnessed that those who use the symbolic language can hide many informal fallacies using the language.
What using the language does is give the illusion of mathematical precision. I’m not saying the symbolic language is bad. It can help reveal a formal fallacy. However, it may also misrepresent what someone else said. On the other hand, it doesn’t remove the human tendency toward fallacy. It also gives the illusion that valid form is all that’s needed for sound logic. However, as already stated, valid form isn’t enough to establish truth. Valid form is necessary but not enough. You must also have a true premise. Most teachers don’t teach this fact. They don’t tell students premises must be true. They don’t tell students about the weakness of the human mind without Christ. You know why they avoid or confuse the truth.
The human mind can’t reason to truth. It makes up stuff and is able to deceive us. The Bible warned us. It’s deceitful and desperately wicked. The only answer. Stay in the presence of the Holy Spirit and let Him guide you. He will lead. He will teach. He will correct. You have no need that any man teach you. The Holy Ghost will teach you.
But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him. (1 John 2:27)
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