Base rate neglect is the tendency to ignore base general information, in favor of specific (new, novel, attention grabbing) information. The base rate neglect is also known as the base rate fallacy. This bias ties into the previous biases I have covered. Please see the bottom of the post for previous biases. If something is generally understood, novel new information […]
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Something might happen, possibly happen, or even be likely or probable to happen, but that doesn’t mean it will happen. When we assume something will inevitably happen because it could happen, we are engaging in the appeal to possibility or probability fallacy. Something being probable doesn’t prove it as a fact. However, this doesn’t prevent us from making decisions based […]
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The anecdotal fallacy is to use a particular personal or isolated example to attempt to prove a generalized universal conclusion. The anecdotal fallacy is also known as misleading vividness. What is most vivid in our environment and most available (availability heuristic) to us, is what is first used to draw conclusions. This vivid availability of information in our memory affects […]
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The allure of simplistic ambiguity over accurate complexity. First, an explanation on the words simplicity and ambiguity. Skip to the examples below if you want the “simple” understanding. Etymology Simplicity favors looking at something in a larger, less specific, less detailed, less defined way. It looks at common unifying aspects to connect them in a general reference. A unity towards […]
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Content: 4.1 Ancient Magic to Modern Social Engineering 4.1.1 Misdirection 4.1.2 Buying and Selling to Manifest Our Own Consequences 4.2 Dark, Negative, Classical and Limited Trivium 4.2.1 Problematic Rhetoric 4.2.2 Rhetorical Spectrum 4.2.3 Fallacy Fallacy 4.2.4 Winding Road 4.2.5 Greater Good Manipulation Video Audio Download .mp3: Dark, Negative and Limited Trivium – Language and Reality Pt.4 4.1 Ancient Magic to […]
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Just because you have a thought, doesn’t automatically make it True. I have plenty of stuff I have written that I need to review and validate first, correct and edit. Imagine possibilities, then verify and refine the reality out of the possible imaginal phantasm. Many people criticize blindly, expressing their thoughts and emotions immediately without taking the time to reflect […]
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Casting aside these delusional self-images of false appearances, the real substance is to become that which is right, good and true. This is Truth, Love, Good, Right, Morality, Natural Law, True Self, Higher Self, Higher Will, etc.
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