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Confirmation bias
In the case of learning a new word, this tendency is
relatively harmless. But the same phenomenon can act
to reinforce your particular viewpoint or bias at the
expense of other information that may actually contradict
or modify your beliefs.
Logical Fallacies
Although your own biases can affect the way you
select and interpret information, there are also
elements embedded in some arguments that can
lead you to unknowingly accept a false conclusion
as fact. Usually there is a flaw in an otherwise
reasonable argument that renders it invalid.
These are commonly known as logical fallacies
and are used by writers and speakers
sometimes accidentally but often on purpose to
lead you to a desired conclusion
.
One of the best-known logical fallacies has to do
with ice cream sales. It suggests that because an
increase in ice cream sales seems to correspond
with an increase in crime, ice cream must cause
crime. Whats tricky about a fallacy is that its
usually made up of a true premise or premises that
reach a false conclusion. Therefore, a person who
isnt listening or reading critically may notice the
true statements but overlook the logical