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I'm guessing this is the part you think contains fallacies...
...but it seems more like pretentious waffle built on questionable premises, making it difficult to parse. But I'll try. For instance, the 'cow' example is a meaningless point, since 'cow' is merely a category in which the various breeds are placed. It is not trying to take a generic cow (think black and white ones you see on farms) and 'generalise' that as being representative of all cows, for example. The person is trying to say that 'intellectualism' is a failure because it overgeneralises but the example doesn't prove their point. They then use this poor example to claim that spiritual beings cannot be understood by intellectualism, which doesn't follow. The reason I've put logical fallacy (possible) is because this might be an attempt to make an unfalsifiable claim. If the person can deny 'intellectualism' (or reasoning) as a method of reaching truth, they can prevent their claims of the existence of 'spiritual beings' from being proven false...allowing them to maintain the claim even in the face of a lack of evidence. |
answered on Monday, Oct 04, 2021 06:33:45 PM by TrappedPrior (RotE) | |
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answered on Tuesday, Oct 05, 2021 08:51:18 AM by Kostas Oikonomou | |
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