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Please, what is the difference between a logical fallacy and a cognitive bias. Thanks. |
asked on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 09:03:11 PM by Baja Jim | |
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A logical fallacy is a mistake in an argument that renders the conclusion unwarranted from the given premises. It is an erroneous line of reasoning that makes the conclusion not follow from the premises because it is not supported by them.
A cognitive bias is a built-in inclination towards certain ideas, beliefs, and conclusions that are not logical but are the product of innate predispositions and heuristics. In other words, a logical fallacy is the mistake in reasoning, while a cognitive bias is the inclination to do this mistake. Example: say person A sees somebody from country X assaulting a person, and they conclude that all people from country X are aggressive, mean people who assault others and that citizens of country X have a trend and societal problem of physical attack. person A here committed the logical fallacy of overextended outrage<>, which is the statistical error in reasoning of taking statistically rare incidents done by an individual of a group and erroneously concluding that such incidents are a trend and commonplace among people from that group. This logical fallacy is the result of the cognitive bias called the group attribution error<>, which is the tendency to generalize properties of an individual in a group and mistake them as representative of the entire group. |
answered on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 03:16:57 AM by Abdulazeez |
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