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DonaldMcIntyre comments on Experience of typical mind fallacy. - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: Elo 27 April 2015 06:39PM

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Comment author: DonaldMcIntyre 28 April 2015 03:25:37AM *  0 points [-]

I think the underlying flaw pointed out on the "Generalizing From One Example" fallacy you mentioned above is the premise that out of a specific example it is possible to conclude how others behave. If this is so, then if you conclude others think different, the same way, or different between themselves based on your own experience then you are going through the same false process I think.