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DonaldMcIntyre comments on Is there a list of cognitive illusions? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 06 May 2015 09:33:41PM 2 points [-]

I think the term cognitive illusion should be used as defined by psychologists for a class of perceptive illusions.

I think the term illusion when used for specific biases is used historically in the metaphoric way. Example: The illusion of control.

Comment author: DonaldMcIntyre 06 May 2015 10:15:43PM *  0 points [-]

I agree that maybe we should use a better term.

Your example above is what I would like to see, a wiki page where all the "illusions" are listed like in the case of cognitive biases (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases).

I couldn't build it because I am not a scientist or psychology professional.