Logical Fallacy of Inflation of Conflict

Inflation of conflict 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. Whenever 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 logical fallacy of inflation of conflict occurs when it is assumed that incomplete knowledge of an issue means that there is nothing that can be known about the issue.

Examples of the Logical Fallacy of Inflation of Conflict

Bill Nye: "The idea that there is a higher power that has driven the course of events in the Universe and our own existence is one that you cannot prove or disprove. And this gets into this expression, agnostic. You can’t know."

What makes Bill Nye think that God cannot be proven or known? Often, people who claim that no one can know about God or spiritual things are guilty of the logical fallacy of inflation of conflict. This is the assumption that incomplete knowledge means that there is nothing that can be known. Of course, such people don't usually apply the same fallacy to science, claiming that we can't know anything scientifically because we don't know everything. Perhaps this is where Bill is coming from, or he may be making an unsupported assertion.

Sandy: "Unless you can describe exactly how God created the Universe, you can't know that He created it."

Roxanne: "Actually, God has revealed that He did create it. You can read all the detail that He gave in Genesis at the beginning of the Bible. If you acknowledge Him speaking to you as you read, He will reveal that information to you. If not, you aren't likely to get too much out of it."

Sandy: "That's no good. You have to give the physics of it or else you can't know."

This is a very common occurance of the inflation of conflict fallacy.