Are You a Pseudo-Intellectual?

Topic Notes

• Use your brain!
• What is a pseudo-intellectual
• Confession Time!!
• The dangers facing today’s society. What is the worst?
• Jeff makes a pseudo-intellectual claim about pseudo-intellectual people. huh?
• Jeff becomes a pseudo-intellecual
• Spotting the pseudo-intellectual
• An argument about orange
• a conversation where everybody loses
• We should be trying to use verifiable claims in our debates
• “I think” should only be used in objective conversations.
• We need to have humility in our discussions.
• Dave vs Jeff / Broncos vs Chiefs
• Distinctions and Definitions
• You might not be a Pseudo-Intellecual if one of the following is true:
  • You make an honest mistakes
  • You don’t know everything
  • You really believe something that is wrong
• 10 Identifying Features of the Pseudo-Intellectual:
  • Straw-man arguments
  • The Anecdotal fallacy
  • Use of the False Opposite, Modus-Tollens
  • Not reading the study/paper/
  • Too much use of words like “obviously”, “everyone”, and other generic terms
  • Switching your point subtly without conceding.
  • Assuming you know your “opponents” reasoning and argument, and not listening carefully or not seeking to understand.
  • Acting like there is no way to know the truth on a given subject.
  • Argument from repetition.
  • Believing that your own opinion, or current sources, are the full-measure of knowledge on a given subject.

Bible Contradiction

In Genesis 15:18 God promises that the Israelites would have certain land, but they do not have it even though the Messiah already came. Was the Bible wrong?

Links

READ: The Pseudo-Itellectual by Pastor Jeff Piepho
— Posted on Revo.church
READ: The Israel of God: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by O. Palmer Robertson
— available on Amazon.com
WATCH: Logic and Preliminaries to Apologetic Reasoning by Pastor Jeff Piepho

Football Challenge

Denver Broncos have won 456 games overall
(through 57 seasons – 1960-2016)
via pro-football-reference.com
Dallas Texans / Kansas City Chiefs have won 435 games overall
(through 57 seasons – 1960-2016)
via pro-football-reference.com

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