Come, Let Us Reason by Ronald Brooks

Author:Ronald Brooks
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2010-07-03T20:00:00+00:00

“If Adam had never sinned, Christ would not have needed to die.”

“If Jesus had not been resurrected, then we could not be saved.”

“If we could only remember our past lives, then we would all realize that we are eternal, divine beings.”

The problem with each of these arguments is that we can’t get beyond that “If.” There is no guarantee that reality would be as the statements say, even if their hypotheses were true. We just don’t know. Sound reasoning is built, as Joe Friday said, on “Just the facts, Ma’am.”

Prestige Jargon Fallacy. Another type of logical snobbery is to say things in such a complex way that people don’t dare to question the truthfulness of what has been said. How can they? First, they have to figure out what it means! This is the prestige jargon fallacy (which is a fancy way of saying “fancy talk”). It confuses complexity with authenticity. It attempts to gain credibility through profundity and substitutes technical terminology for truth.

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