Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Logical Fallacies

So, we were told to find a logical fallacy in class, and I kinda did. I didn't see something that was a logical fallacy but in construction, we had a good discussion about one. We were talking about tin telepathy and whether or not we believed it to be true. There are many warning signs to recognize logical fallacies, and a major one is confirmation vias. If a twin finds out that their twin was say in a car accident and they hit their head, if by chance, the other twin got hit with a ball in the head, they would certainly remember that once they found out about the accident. If they had not found out about the accident, they most likely would never remember the pain in their head. Confirmation vias is when you know something happened to someone or something, and you remember or create an instance in your mind that would not have been a big deal otherwise. In my opinion, twin telepathy is fake and there is no real imformation to support the idea. If they could, perhaps, prove it with tests and true studies, then maybe I would believe this. The red flag, warning sign, of confimation bias, has led me to believe that twin telepathy is not true.

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