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Citizen Irrelevant

I thought of a fallacy

I was thinking about atheists and theists and this kind of thing came up in my head.

"If a theist says 'Oh my god' in exclamation and the existence of god is contrary to scientific knowledge, then therefore atheists should say, 'Oh my science' ".

Sounds silly, it is obviously some kind of non sequitur but not your usual, "if rocks are grey, then my eyes are blue" one, it appeals to the contrary and attributes it to the idea of exclamation.

asked on Sunday, Mar 27, 2022 02:44:56 PM by Citizen Irrelevant

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TrappedPrior (RotE) writes:

This isn't a fallacy. Expressions (like "oh my god") are not arguments, statements of fact, or anything other than ways of conveying a feeling.

posted on Sunday, Mar 27, 2022 03:03:05 PM
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TrappedPrior (RotE) writes:

I literally put it in an argument form:

 

If A says B

And B is contrary to C

Then Not A should say C

(Based on the idea of what conforms more)

I don't think there was any implication whatsoever that. "oh my god" is an argument, the idea was a critique of how the phrase conforms to who based on the context on who uses it as an exclamation.

The form of the argument would be similar to something like, "It makes much more sense for people who feel pain to scream than people who don't feel anything and arbitrary scream".

I mean if you see a person get punched in a stomach really damn good and hard and they scream it kind of makes sense, wouldn't you find it odd if a person who is just randomly standing screams in pain and then just stops screaming without expressing it physically either?

posted on Sunday, Mar 27, 2022 03:07:49 PM
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Shawn writes:

Just to throw another point into the discussion, many believers in God will say that when an atheist says "oh my God" it's because deep down inside they actually do believe despite their insistence they do not. It's like the "there are no atheists in fox-holes" argument. 

posted on Sunday, Mar 27, 2022 03:14:33 PM
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Citizen Irrelevant writes:

However, I was in a bunker, on the DMZ at Khe Sanh.  I was/am an atheist, and I remain one.  If my example proves the exception, than it follows there are more “atheists in fox holes “.  Anti-theists, even…

 

posted on Monday, Mar 28, 2022 01:03:53 PM

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