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From: Tim Cook
Date: 2 Nov 2009 12:30:49
Message: <4aef1749@news.povray.org>

Warp wrote:
>   I wonder what this fallacy is called:
> 
> 1) If God is good, then X.
> 2) Clearly, not X.
> 3) Hence there is no God.
> 
>   Is it a non-sequitur? Deduction #3 does not follow from the other two.
> (What would follow is "God is not good", not "there is no God".)

You'd think.

But there's an extra, assumed step:
1b) God is good.

Which, quite frankly, is a stretch.

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Tim Cook
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