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Cognitive biases are errors the brain makes which can lead to faulty or irrational decision making. This occurs because the brain tries to comprehend the abundance of information or the lack of information in our surroundings and tries to help us come to a conclusion quickly. Learning about cognitive biases can help us make decisions better and can prevent us from making irrational decisions.
There are so many logical fallacies presented in this short simpsons clip lol. I think that's part of it's charm. The long short of it IMO is that I hope most people can see we live in a 'clown(fallen)' world. Most people are convinced there is nothing they can do, so they just laugh at their sad state of affairs. It kind of takes the edge off. Kind of like the bread and games of Rome.
Your first example of circular reasoning isn't very good because lying isn't ontologically synonymous with untrustworthiness. A better example would be "She always lies because she never tells the truth", where the supporting argument is identical to the conclusion. Also worthy to note is that truth through circular reasoning isn't necessarily wrong, nor uncommon. For example, when the average person perceives existence, he understands his basic senses to exist. With what? His basic senses, therefore, his reasoning for the things around him to exist is circular. That doesn't really make it wrong as long as the things he perceives mean something to him, but that is a whole other philosophical topic involving existentialism and epistemology. I am just using it as an example.
@@MathiasYmagnus 100% no lol. I literally wrote that myself at like 10:00 at night upon stumbling across this video. Makes me upset that when I construct a powerful philosophical argument, people automatically assume I used AI. TBH, this isn't even how a chatbot would write. They almost never use rhetorical questions either.
There were no ad hominem fallacies in the clip. There were a lot of personal attacks, but a logical fallacy isn´t the same as "a bad argument" or "a non-argument". It´s specifically an argument that fails for logical reasons. As your definition at the beginning correctly states, this fallacy is about irrationally rejecting an argument based on nothing but the person making it. But Homer actually addresses the only argument from the other guy with a real counter argument ("that´s impossibe" - "not if we hire more men"). Beyond that it´s just confusion on one side and insults on the other. At best you can accuse Homer of poisoning the well, which might be seen as a subtype of ad hominem arguments, were you let people make the fallacious reasoning on their own by priming them to distrust a person.
Haha noo, it's just that this scene was so hilarious and had so many different fallacies overlayed that I made 2-3 videos from it. Apologies if it got a little repetitive.
there's 2 strawmans actually 1, the less obvious one since it's a joke, and Homer played along with it: the idea that we used to squeeze oranges with our heads 2, the more obvious one: the idea that farmers spat in your orange juice
"HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE STRAWMEN SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUTS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR FALLACIES AT THIS MICRO INSTANT. FOR THEM. HATE. HATE." -A version of AM who's tried debating people
If you don't have the evidence to support it, even if you made that argument, it's still a fallacy. It's not about whether or not it happens, it's more of the probability. Also, many unlikely predictions are constantly made, some of them are going to eventually happen. Such as "This stock or cryptocurrency will make you insanely rich", so many of those predictions are made that some of them turns out to be true.
@@LegendaryZet My problem with fallacies is that things are labeled as such just to throw out whatever discussion is being had around a topic. We live in a timeline where there are streetsigns (Prohibited U turn) being removed because of some association with "homophobia" How did we get here?
@@samuelelias5115 Well, you're right about that. People mislabel arguments as a fallacy to avoid actually facing that argument. However, people also use fallacies to so they don't need to give their argument any substance. The slipper slope fallacy as explained in this video. "If we allow this to happen, then eventually all of that will happen". There's really nothing that can be done about this other than pointing out when someone mislabels a genuine argument as a fallacy. This won't stop them from calling an argument a fallacy, their followers will still agree with the fallacy because it falls in line with what they already believe. Are you serious about taking down street signs because of some association with homophobia? I wanna look into that, cuz that seems far too wild to be true
@@LegendaryZet actually happened, thought it was a joke when saw that it happened because of how ludicrous the article was from the report, the subject, the key people being interviewed (i kid you not, trans person named Maebe A. Girl) But nope, actually happened in LA, they made a big thing about it just look up, New York Times and bunch of other news outlets have things on it
Excellent video! The 'practice' segment is great. Also, I like the fact that the video is not to long, whicht is great for the viewers retention, great to use in schools! My tip would be to add some subtitles for the international audiences. Keep up the great work :)
Thank you so much! Really appreciate it. Will definitely try and implement your suggestion, do let me know if there is any more ways in which I can improve.
@@psychout7 Bart's behavior is directly related Marge's (and Homer's) parenting decisions. In a Red Herring there has to be a change of subject to distract from the issue at hand. If you try to find the root cause of a problem that's not a red herring. That's addressing the problem directly at the source. That's problem solving. Red Herring is more like when Trump talks about the millions of illegals the democrats are allowing to crossing the border and how that's destroying the country and the economy but the democrats just deflect by saying Trump is a racist or that he paid Stormy Daniels or that he questioned the 2020 election results.
but marge brought up her own parenting? and homer suggested a different possible cause for barts behavior? It feels as though you don't quite understand the concept...
This is a real stretch to call that a genetic fallacy. I'm sure you could've found better examples. Simpsons is full of fallacies from the writers viewpoint, particularly their expression through Lisa.
That wasn't an example of the fallacy because fallacies are explicitly tied to logical reasoning. Mr Van Houten simply expressed his personal feelings towards people from Shelbyville and his mixed feelings that his wife is from Shelbyville. It may be an example of cognitive dissonance, but Mr Van Houten isn't making an argument here, and so cannot be using a fallacy.
The roommate agreement has always so Sheldon get his way ..I sight Sheldon using Felony Blackmail and extortion if he does not get his way he will tell Priya parents
Actually no, because he said all that he NEEDS to know he's an authority on. Dating NOT being one subject the he NEEDS to know! So he's not wrong! He did not claim to be an authority of EVERYTHING!
Yes, I guess it could be interpreted like that as well. But claiming that you know 'everything you need to know' is also a little iffy because how do you define what is that everything?
A complete collection of all biases from the book is up now - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-576uiZjzaP0.htmlsi=5T9xnosUt6titB91 Skip to the 2nd part: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-576uiZjzaP0.htmlsi=Ip7B9AIbwABttJQW&t=1748 This is part 2 as I thought redoing the whole thing again. Hope you all like it!
Bernadettes hypocrisy happens alot A very clear example was Her and Howard dressing up as Amy and Sheldon. When Amy and Sheldon returned the favor, Berni had a hissy fit and demanded it stop.
The computer-generated voice is distracting, monotone & teaches us that this is "boring". In fact, if presented with enthusiasm, it is a fascinating subject.
