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Many of our ideas about the world are based more on feelings than facts, sensibilities than science, and rage than reality. We gravitate toward ideas that make us feel comfortable in areas such as religion, politics, philosophy, social justice, love and sex, humanity, and morality. We avoid ideas that make us feel uncomfortable. This avoidance is a largely unconscious process that affects our judgment and gets in the way of our ability to reach rational and reasonable conclusions. By understanding how our mind works in this area, we can start embracing uncomfortable ideas and be better informed, be more understanding of others, and make better decisions in all areas of life.
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These can be classified specifically as speculations or hypotheticals. The logical trains are not deductive arguments, which is fine, it just means that each connection contains some degree of error. Like the slippery slope , as the margin of errors are multiplied the conclusion becomes more improbable than probable. Also, the first item is an assertion with no support given, so that is problematic. |
answered on Thursday, Jan 07, 2021 11:33:47 AM by Bo Bennett, PhD | |
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