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The Logical Fallacy of Capturing the Naïve / Argumentum ad Captandum / Argumentum ad Captandum VulgusWhenever a logical fallacy is committed, the fallacy has its roots in Agrippa's trilemma. All human thought (without Divine revelation) is based on one of three unhappy possibilities. These three possibilities are infinite regression, circular reasoning, or axiomatic thinking. This problem is known as Agrippa's trilemma. Some have claimed that only logic and math can be known without Divine revelation; however, that is not true. Without Divine revelation, neither logic nor math can be known. Science is also limited to the pragmatic because of the weakness on human reasoning, which is known as Agrippa's trilemma. The fallacy of capturing the naive is one of the many smokescreens that are used to cover the fact that the reasoning is based on one of the three fallacies of Agrippa's trilemma. The logical fallacy of Capturing the Naïve / Capturing the Naïve / Argumentum ad Captandum / Argumentum ad Captandum Vulgus occurs when unsound reasoning is used to win popular acceptance. It is deceiving the gullible and uninformed. Proverbs 9:14-18: “Folly is an unruly woman; she is simple and knows nothing. She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city, calling out to those who pass by, who go straight on their way, ‘Let all who are simple come to my house!’ To those who have no sense she says, ‘Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!’ But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.” Examples of The Logical Fallacy of Capturing the Naïve / Argumentum ad Captandum / Argumentum ad Captandum VulgusMany college classrooms have become platforms for deceiving young people by presenting partial evidence in a convincing way, knowing that most students will be ignorant of conflicting evidence. This is true of the presentation of Atheism, Agnosticism, Socialism, Relativism, Post Modernism, reconstructed history, and the Big-Bang-Billions-of-Years-No-Flood-Molecules-to-Man story. The abortion industry has made billions by deceiving young girls, calling the baby a blob of tissue. Sexual seduction is an obvious example. The pornography industry makes its billions by promising satisfaction to those who don't know that they will not only not find satisfaction but they will also experience a loss of the ability to find satisfaction. 
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