Glossary
Dimensional Fallacy
Everything has a dimension. One dimension is a single point, two dimensions is a line, three dimensions is an object.
A point has one dimension and can be pointed to.
A line has two dimensions. Point to any place on the line and you are pointing to the whole line.
An object has three dimensions. Point to any point on the object you are pointing to the whole object (including inside the object).
Some spiritualists point to an object (an apple, a person) and say: “it that it?”. Then they play the “is it this, is it that” game, pointing to different parts of the object. And all the while committing the dimensional fallacy: not seeing that pointing anywhere on an object is pointing to the whole object.
Then they move inside the object and begin the “is it this, is it that” game again. But now they aren’t even pointing to the original object.
Think of a Matruska doll. It is three dimensional, point perpendicular to it and you are pointing at it. Go inside the first doll, and you are no longer see the whole doll, only the dolls inside the first.
Differential Fallacy
The philosopher Zeno told of a paradox: Achilles and the Tortoise. Is says that Achilles can never catch the tortoise because not matter how small the gap between Achilles and the tortoise, the tortoise can move forward and remain ahead. But Zeno is committing the Differential Fallacy: the steps of Achilles and the tortoise are different size. When Achilles is near the tortoise, a single large step will take him past the tortoise.
Correlates with reality
Invalid simply means “does not correlate”; a view that does not correlate with reality (example: flat earth).
If reality appears a certain way, then it is possible that it is that way.
Einstein’s General Relativity says that motion is relative to your inertial frame, which for us is the earth. So the view that the sun goes around the earth is valid.
From space, we can see that the earth is a sphere. So the view that the earth is flat is invalid.