Why do people make assertions about things they cannot or should not assert?
Regarding “A could be X or Y, but you assert that ‘A is X.‘”
- Possibility 1: Observations are so small that we have only seen cases where A is X
- It’s common for young, inexperienced people to do this.
- Often people who are not young and have a lot of experience assure us, why?
- Even if you don’t observe it, you can imagine that the world is not colored one way or another.
- Possibility 2: Lost imagination for what is not observed.
- Are we losing the ability to recognize what we observe?
- Possibility 4: The memory of diverse X and Y results in the past is no longer being recalled and is being replaced by the simple “A is all X” memory.
- Possibility 5: Early on, the person had the belief that “A is X” and subconsciously ignored information that contradicted this belief.
- Possibility 6: Early on, the person had the belief that “A is X” and actually created the “A is X” situation through actions based on that belief.
- self-fulfilling prophecy
- Even if you don’t observe it, you can imagine that the world is not colored one way or another.
Possibility 3
- Psychological biases that promote assertions are occurring.
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