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by mantrax3 4476 days ago
The fallacy recognition fallacy:

The idea that if you recognize one of those fallacies at play, it's the dominant fallacy and hence correcting it will lead to the predicted results.

Reality is a complicated mesh of variables, and we judge it with a complicated mesh of heuristics.

Studying the fallacies is good, but don't think you suddenly have an explanation & solution for all the problems you see around yourself.

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Great one Mantrax3! We'll add that on http://coglode.com I think!