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While people sometimes deliberately use logical fallacies to deceive others, more often, people deceive themselves. The ungodly thinking fallacy is the only fallacy since we can define every fallacy in the context of the ungodly thinking fallacy. Without divine revelation, we would be doomed to base every conclusion on made-up stuff, that is, bare claims. Those bare claims are axiomatic thinking fallacies. However, we try to make the made-up stuff look like real stuff using smokescreen fallacies. So, the ungodly thinking fallacy consists of axiomatic thinking fallacies along with smokescreen fallacies that try to make the axioms seem real.
In simple terms, the ungodly thinking fallacy is making up stuff and calling the made-up stuff “true.”
At the risk of being redundant, we’re going to look at this ungodly thinking fallacy another way. We want to understand the basis of all fallacies. The simplicity of this understanding is that while hundreds of fallacies exist, they sort into these two kinds.
Axioms are claims that we don’t know. They may be outright lies. They may be assumptions. They’re always made-up stuff.
Smokescreen fallacies give the illusion that made-up stuff is real stuff.
And that’s how simple it is. It’s so simple that most people miss it. And yet, even though it’s simple, fallacies can be tricky illusions. They must blur the division between reality and make-believe or the fallacies don’t work.
Many fallacies fit the term “axiomatic thinking fallacy.” These fallacies are all axiomatic thinking fallacies, but they’re different from each other. Under the axiomatic thinking fallacy, we’ll find fallacies like the following:
- assumption
- blind authority
- bold-faced lie
- hypothesis contrary to fact
- ipse dixit
- lie
- misrepresenting facts
- outright lie
- the big lie technique
Under the smokescreen category of fallacy, we’ll find things like the following:
- ambiguity
- appeal to authority
- appeal to emotion
- appeal to ridicule
- circular reasoning
- coercion
- comparison
- contradiction
- distraction
- fallacies of cause
- fallacies of choice
- fallacies of omission
- fallacies of pressure
- flawed evidence
- genetic fallacies
- infinite regression
- invalid form (formal fallacies)
- limiting presuppositions
- message control
- non sequitur
- statistical fallacies
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