Stolen Concept Fallacy Description: Requiring the truth of the something that you are simultaneously trying to disprove. Logical Form: Person 1 is attempting to disprove X. X is required to disprove X. Example #1: Reason and logic are not always reliable, so we should not count on it to help us find truth. Explanation: Here we are using reason to disprove the validity of reason, which is unreasonable—reasonably speaking. Example #2: Science cannot be trusted. It is a big conspiracy to cover up the truth of the Bible and the creation story. I saw fossils in the creation museum with humans and
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