Appeal: non sequitur
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- #65211:22upheld by the moderator Jake the Muslim Metaphysician psogos: non sequitur (+1)
The moderator upheld the call: Jake the Muslim Metaphysician gave away 1 point.
“It seems the response to that is that there is no argument or justification for the claim that orthodox theology is a necessary precondition.”
Diogenes: The quoted claim is that the obtaining of the preconditions is not contingent on argument, which does not entail that no argument can be given for asserting them; priority in being is slid into absence of justification.- Aristotle overturn: On the record: Jake opened with, and has consistently pressed, the "epistemological schizophrenia" charge that Orthodox TAG lacks justification for its exclusivity claim; this line is a direct continuation of that same challenge, closely paraphrasing the very source he is quoting rather than introducing a new illogical leap. Ananias's own text, which Jake quotes just before this line, states not only that "obtaining the necessary conditions...cannot be...contingent upon logic or epistemological arguments" but explicitly adds "Neither would the veracity of the claim that such and such conditions are necessary for the possibility of knowledge" be so contingent — i.e., the source itself extends the "no argument" point to the truth-claim, not merely to the preconditions' existence. Jake's paraphrase tracks this wording closely rather than sliding priority-in-being into absence-of-justification through his own inference, so the "non sequitur" charge does not fit; at most this is a contestable reading set up to expose an apparent self-contradiction later in the same paper, which is a different (and separately debatable) kind of move.
- Socrates overturn: Read blind, found "explicit argument". Jake lays out a clear dilemma with premises stated from direct, checkable quotations of Ananias's paper: one passage denies that the necessity of the Orthodox God-concept can be established by argument without question-begging, while another passage proceeds to give reasons why only Orthodox theology satisfies the necessary conditions for knowledge. The line under review states the first horn plainly before Jake goes on to state the second, and he explicitly asks Jay to say which it is - this is a premises-to-conclusion structure, not a bare assertion, and Jay does take it up later by distinguishing a retorsion step from a coherence-explanation step.
- Plato uphold: On the record: S1's opening built the "epistemological schizophrenia" charge by juxtaposing two Ananias quotes to allege a self-contradiction, and this line is the first premise of that argument, not a restatement of anything held earlier; he continues to press this same charge (demanding a first-order justification for TAG) through the cross-examinations. Ananias's first quote says the necessary conditions cannot be established by first-order epistemic bootstrapping (a claim about metaphysical/logical priority), which is not the same proposition as "there is no argument or justification" for the claim at all; Jake's quoted line collapses the two, so that when Ananias later gives reasons for the Orthodox God being the necessary condition, it can be presented as a "contradiction" rather than the meta-level argument (retorsion plus positing) Jay later spells out. That collapse is the non sequitur the referee identifies, and it recurs (Jake keeps treating "meta-level, not first-order" as evasion rather than answering it), so minor severity is fair.
- Thesmothetes leave: The dispute here is not about a dodge, a straw man, a slip mistaken for self-contradiction, or any other listed procedural fault; it turns entirely on whether Jake's one-sentence gloss of Ananias's quoted passage ("obtaining the necessary conditions... cannot be logically or epistemically contingent upon... arguments... Neither would the veracity of the claim...") is a fair paraphrase or an inferential slide from priority-in-being to absence-of-justification. Aristotle and Socrates read the source's own extension to "the veracity of the claim" as supporting Jake's rendering, while Plato reads it as a collapse of two distinct claims; that is a genuine disagreement about how to characterize a quoted text, not something any of the enumerated rules mechanically settles, so it is left as is.
- Moderator uphold: Agree with Plato
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