Systemic Causality
Published Thursday 16 November 2023 at 10:23
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The straw man fallacy occurs when someone misrepresents or exaggerates another person's argument to make it easier to attack or refute.
Instead of addressing the actual issue or argument, they fight a distorted or oversimplified version of it created by themselves, thereby sidestepping the genuine discussion at hand. [+]
Cognitive biases and logical fallacies
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The brains rush to process the verbal request and once they hear the because clause, they automatically decide that since the phrasing includes a word denoting reason, then there must be a real reason, so they fall short of judging the reason itself. The brain seems to recognise a familiar language pattern and uses its own predictive function when reacting to the situation. [+]
How the brain works
