Ray Addam

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So the next one I would say it's called reductio ad absurdum, which is the Latin term for reduction to absurdity.

Now, there's actually a couple of different techniques you can use here, but this is one of the ways that you can respond to their logic.

Now, for example, we'll start with the God one, just because we started with that.

The person says, believing in God is so stupid.

I don't know why anyone thinks like this.

Then I'll respond with Socratic questioning and say, oh, why do you say that?

And then he'll give me his logic.

He might say something else emotional, but I'll keep prodding him with Socratic questioning until I can get something that I can attack.

And I remember that he mentioned he only believes in things that he can see.

Now see that, that's his logic.

He only believes in things that he can see.

So using reduction to the absurd, I can then take that logic and I can apply it to other things and see if it still works and see if it doesn't work.

That shows that his logic is weak and it's not applicable.

And if the reason why he believes this thing is weak, then his whole argument crumbles.

So for example, he says, I only believe in things that I can see.

Can you think of a time that might not be true?

Yeah, well, I was thinking, have you seen your brain?

Are you sure that you have one?

But in his case, he said he only believes in things that he can see.

He has been.

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