Ambiguity? Non sequitur?
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1. Angels are just products of mind so they don't exist
2. Everything is a product of mind.
3. Therefore angels are real.
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3This is so vague I have no idea what it is about.
P1) Angels are just products of the mind
Implicit P) Products of the mind do not exist
Implicit P) Angels do not exist
P2) Everything is a product of the mind
C) Angels exist
We assert that angels are part of category X, then say category X contains things which don't really exist. We then try to claim that angels do in fact exist. This is contradictio in adjecto - an inconsistent set of premises which cannot jointly be true! If angels do not exist, they cannot exist and vice versa.
Next, there's an ambiguity fallacy in the sense that 'products of the mind' and 'existence' are not clearly defined. Does 'product of the mind' refer to perceptions such as anger or sadness (which can be argued to be 'real') or just concepts like unicorns (which are not 'real', at least, materially)? This makes the premises questionable. This is fallacious because we lump things for which there is actual evidence with things widely known to be supernatural (and thus unlikely to exist), like angels, when these are in fact very different.
This is not a valid argument. The conclusion clearly does not follow from the premises. How can "...are real" follow from "...don't exist?"
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This series of statements seems to provide a non sequitur .
Premise 1 seems to imply that products of the mind are things that don't exist. Premise 2 states everything is a product of mind.
If products of the mind don't exist and if everything is a product of the mind, then the logical conclusion would be that nothing exists .... not that one particular product of the mind does exist.