David John Wellman | DJW's Quick Guide to Fallacies (With a Side of Toast) @DavidJohnWellman | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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Title says it all, really. We're going to quickly discuss fallacies that you commonly run across, with examples from both everyday life and from the atheism-theism debate. We're also going to have a side of toast.
I'm probably going to get accused of strawmanning the position of apologists in several places in this video. For example, "the stone paradox doesn't disprove God, therefore God exists" does not accurately reflect the position expressed by, say, Swinburne and Plantinga in their peer-reviewed philosophical papers. It does, however, accurately reflect the position expressed by those who say "the stone paradox doesn't disprove God, therefore God exists." What can I say? Your complaint is with them, not with me.
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0:00 Intro
0:38 Denying the Antecedent
2:36 Affirming the Consequent
3:06 Non Sequitur (The Uberfallacy)
3:53 The Fallacy Fallacy (The GOAT)
4:48 Equivocation
6:15 Begging the Question (Circular Argument)
7:06 Appeal to Ignorance (Burden Shifting)
7:28 Strawman
8:04 Questionable Cause (After Hoc Therefore Something Else Hoc)
9:05 Irrelevant Authority (Sajak, Not Trebek)
9:48 Red Herring (Better Than Vegetables)
10:23 Ad Hominem (The Most Misunderstood)
11:48 Outro
NOW LIVE: DJW's Patreon page:
patreon.com/davidjohnwellman
Title says it all, really. We're going to quickly discuss fallacies that you commonly run across, with examples from both everyday life and from the atheism-theism debate. We're also going to have a side of toast.
I'm probably going to get accused of strawmanning the position of apologists in several places in this video. For example, "the stone paradox doesn't disprove God, therefore God exists" does not accurately reflect the position expressed by, say, Swinburne and Plantinga in their peer-reviewed philosophical papers. It does, however, accurately reflect the position expressed by those who say "the stone paradox doesn't disprove God, therefore God exists." What can I say? Your complaint is with them, not with me.
Background art by DJW
0:00 Intro
0:38 Denying the Antecedent
2:36 Affirming the Consequent
3:06 Non Sequitur (The Uberfallacy)
3:53 The Fallacy Fallacy (The GOAT)
4:48 Equivocation
6:15 Begging the Question (Circular Argument)
7:06 Appeal to Ignorance (Burden Shifting)
7:28 Strawman
8:04 Questionable Cause (After Hoc Therefore Something Else Hoc)
9:05 Irrelevant Authority (Sajak, Not Trebek)
9:48 Red Herring (Better Than Vegetables)
10:23 Ad Hominem (The Most Misunderstood)
11:48 Outro
