While there are hundreds of logical fallacies, the axiomatic thinking fallacy is the only operative fallacy. That’s easy to understand. Axiomatic thinking is just making stuff up. We all know about making stuff up. Everyone does it at some point. Many things we all believe is simply make-believe.

Axiomatic thinking takes many forms. Assumptions are things that aren’t known but that are treated as if they were known. Unsupported assertions, such as,

“Evolution is a fact.”

are statements that are made without any evidence. In the case of the statement,

“Evolution is a fact.”

you can be pretty sure that the person who said it is using an equivocation fallacy as a smokescreen to cover the blatant axiomatic thinking fallacy. The illusion that is created is, “The story about molecules turning into people over long periods of time is a fact.” The word, “evolution,” is given the definition of “the story that molecules turned into people over long periods of time.” This story isn’t a fact, though. So, the smokescreen is to insist that the word, “evolution,” means both “the story that molecules turned into people over long periods of time,” and “minor adaptations within kinds of living things.” We can observe the minor adaptations within kinds of living things. We can’t observe the story that molecules turned into people over long periods of time. These are two totally different concepts, but the evolution-believer is using the same word, “evolution,” for these different concepts. That creates confusion in thinking. It’s known as “equivocation.” Schools train people in this kind of irrationality, and it becomes so ingrained that graduates find it impossible to be rational.

By the way, the only way around the axiomatic thinking fallacy is Divine revelation. God speaks through Scripture and through every means mentioned in Scripture. When we add to His Utterances or diminish them, we have one tool to do this. It’s the axiomatic thinking fallacy. We make assumptions. We use bare assertions. We use outright lies. Then, we use smokescreens, such as circular reasoning or infinite regression to hide our axiomatic thinking fallacies.

In conclusion, the only operative fallacy is axiomatic thinking. All other fallacies serve the purpose of giving the illusion that the axiom is part of reality.