Chapter 62: A Network Understanding of Logical Fallacies
Logical fallacies do not seem to be able to be derived using the reflexive property: non-false = true. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info explained from the perspective of the network, and many logical fallacies in today's society can be understood, because they are too macroscopic, and only by fully considering the game at the micro level can we get macro logical inferences, which is a kind of patterned network path collapse.
1 (Scarecrow, Distorted Opinion) Argument is the use of various means to obscure this delicate logical process, but because logic has a hierarchical and convergent nature, transitivity is not necessarily applicable. Therefore, certain concepts can be established through plausible connections, but the probability of error is extremely high.
2 (Misattribution) The construction of correlation is a probabilistic connection: subjective and objective. Due to the overall change of the network, some variables with similar changes are inevitable, and the correlation between the sales of ice cream and the number of people drowned. However, the spatiotemporal view of the network does not recognize cause and effect, and we generally think that the establishment of causality is a feeling caused by its correlation above a certain threshold. The connection of things is the collapse of the path of the network, which can never reach 100%, which is a limitation like the second law of thermodynamics.
3 (Appeal to Emotions) The derivation of logic does not recognize the special status of human beings, such as consciousness, will, emotion, and the like. The above is just a set of views that arise naturally from human existence, there is no right or wrong, only choice.
4 (Fallacy) The relationship between the part and the whole, which is like a matrix network relationship. Local errors and global errors are not necessarily equivalent, but there is a certain correlation. In the same way, the correctness of the whole does not necessarily explain the rationality of the part, it is just a game and a process of reaching equilibrium. Partisanship is an example of this.
5 (Slippery Slope Fallacy) The transitivity of logic is limited, except that the different levels of coupling allow the transitivity to proceed infinitely (a-b-c, c-d-e=a-b-c-d-e is an observational result), as in the six-degree separation theory of the network. A small probability of something * many similar things = cause and effect, this is a phenomenological theory, although we humans understand it this way, but it is not necessarily correct.
6 (personal attack), like 4, is a misunderstanding of the relationship between the different levels of the network.
7 (Appeal to hypocrisy) Use Bayesian probability formulas to construct relationships at the subjective and objective levels, which are high-dimensional relationship connections, but which are high-risk connections, and can only be formed with sufficient training to form relationship constructions like intuition. In general, we can only deal with the current small-scale hierarchical relationships.
8 (personal doubt) the necessity of the construction of the underlying concept, which is a probabilistic behavior (learning through more knowledge is a probabilistic behavior, so there is a certain distribution at the overall level, a power-law distribution: less wise and more foolish)
9 (One-sided fallacy) There is no right or wrong in the logic of the network, everything is a selective expression adapted to the environment, so there is Murphy's law, but whenever there may be exceptions, there will inevitably be.
10 (Inducing Questions) Through the construction of high-dimensional (establishing certain hypotheses) structures, and looking for certain intrinsic features (the correlation between the local and the whole is relatively large), a certain sequence can be preliminarily constructed, that is, events as we understand them. For example, Xiaohong suspected that her husband Sun Yue was having an affair, so in order to find out, she asked him: "Is there a birthmark on Chen Xuan's buttocks?" This kind of low-dimensional event can help the construction of high-dimensional structures (such as cheating or not), but it is not absolute, for the Internet, everything is possible, and we are used to understanding knowledge based on its probability. (Binary, below a certain probability is considered impossible, above a certain probability is considered certain)
11 (Burden of Proof) The treatment of the unknown can be seen as the treatment of the imaginary space, such as the invisible Charizard, which may be something of another dimension. In order to maintain our fragile logical system, we can only bury our heads in the sand like ostriches and ignore them, which is a rational attitude to grasp the present. The existence of a conceptual unknown proves meaningless, and we can only deal with it by representation. In fact, this is just an effort by human beings to find a sense of security, and of course, to develop in this direction is nihilism. In fact, nihilism is not meaningless, but it is also just an option. Of course, the relatively small number of people who hold this choice is also a manifestation of the differentiation of a higher-dimensional society.
12 (Semantic ambiguity) The use of a combination of various levels of coupling to interpret things to a certain extent, as if being an athlete and a referee is a selective expression of the path of the network, and it is a game strategy that uses the subconscious assumptions of most people about a certain concept to distort them for profit (this kind of brain teaser is immoral, hehe): in the pigeon experiment, the hawks choose the behavior of the pacifists more often, and the pacifists choose the hawkish behavior more often to maximize the interests of the individual.
13 (Gambler's Fallacy) Theoretically, the probability of the occurrence of the current event has little correlation with the previous event, which is a convergence, which is a relatively independent property.
14 (Band float) Many things cannot be used as evidence of another thing, and the relationship we base on may be wrong, and we only construct the relationship on the surface of the macrocosm, which is very random.
15 (appeal to authority) This is a choice: the new nodes of the network tend to connect to the central nodes with high connectivity, which is the result of an overall hierarchical game, and is a manifestation of energy minimization. However, reality and rationality are only relatively related, but not absolute.
16 (Synthetic Fallacy), like 4 and 6, is an understanding of the various levels of the network, and a convergence of derivation, like the chaos caused by the repeated iterations of Logic.
17 (no real Scotsman) The overall description is wrong, but, like the model, may be useful. But we cannot admit its correctness because of its reasonableness. Because of the expression of the network, the existence of exceptions is universal.
18 (Genetic Fallacy) The effect of different dimensions of the sequence, such as the temporal dimension, on the latter link is probability, and it may be clear at the statistical level, but there are infinite possibilities for individuals.
19 (black and white) This dichotomy is a kind of separation of the network, because the hierarchy is coupled, everything is a selective expression of the network, and the good and the bad can only be reflected in the specific environment. And the possibilities of the network are limitless.
20 (Stealing the Argument) A circular argument is a way of describing the unknown, and there is a certain probability that it can be true in the structure of the network. But a certain anchor point is required, and this paradoxical singularity is the key to coupling reality and theory.
21 (Appeal to Nature) There is no primacy in the logic of the network. Only science, which we admit empirically, can serve as our guide, but this is also not absolute.
22 (Anecdotal Evidence) Observation can only improve subjective probability, i.e., understanding, which is a kind of observer bias. The observation of any individual is an eigenpath of the network, and we need to understand it in a higher dimension in order to give guidance to the lower dimensions, such as through statistics.
23 (Texas sharpshooters) cherry-picked data that matched previous assumptions, which made the data incomplete and thus constructed the wrong network structure. The emphasis on the web is the whole.
24 (Middle Ground) Specific situation analysis, in a certain case, due to the hierarchical game, the equilibrium result reached has a relatively high probability of hierarchical coupling. But the greatest joy of the Internet is that it is not absolute, although this sentence is an absolute, like the paradox of "I am a lie". That's the beauty of network logic.
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