Posted by Larry Hoover on December 1, 2005, at 13:08:02 [reposted on December 3, 2005, at 14:38:49 | original URL]
In reply to ...or overgeneralizing? » gardenergirl, posted by badhaircut on December 1, 2005, at 10:51:26
> >> Most people here think they smarter than pdoc
> > Slippery slope? How could you know?
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> Thank you, gg, for questioning that assertion!
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> I think that in Beck's list of cognitive distortions, the reasoning given here ("I know thats true because Im one of them") might be an example of Overgeneralization: "If one instance is X, then the other instances are X."Yes, I agree, it is a rather extreme form of over-generalization, with a sample of one. I think it's also a fallacy of propositional logic, of the form "if p and q, q therefore p".
I think I'm smarter than my pdoc, and I post to Babble. Other people post to Babble, therefore they think they're smarter than their pdoc.
The poster did use an existential qualifier, "most", which weakens the counter-argument, making it, too, conditional.
I doubt this poster is correct, in any case.
Lar
poster:Larry Hoover
thread:585017
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