The Truth Process

What is true? 1. Some old mythology books tells you its fairies or something like that. 2. A scientist tells you it's confirmation bias. 3. Another religion tells you that directed meditation and focus allowed clarity of thought to access your memories by placing trust in a higher consciousness. 4. Your monotheistic parent tells you its inspiration from God. How do you know which one is correct? You don't. Welcome to earth. But here are some methods people have used: 1. Whatever most trustworthy (intelligent/sane/good) people believe is most likely correct. (appeal to authority) 2. Whatever most people experience is most likely correct. (argumentum ad populum) 3. Whatever I experience is most likely correct, so If I didnt experience it then its likely not correct (argument from ignorance). 4. Who knows, but whatever it is seems to work when I have given up all hope (pragmatic approach). I think most people appeal to authority figures of some kind for most thing...

As I watched the presentation, I noticed that he was very influential through the use of many persuasive methods including logical fallacies. I will try to reveal both as I saw them. The first method or technique I observed was something that I will call “Association”. This is where You try to make something appear false by associating it with other obviously false things This can be done through making sweeping generalizations or grouping things all together that don’t belong together. Our brain uses shortcuts to avoid having to process unnecessary large amounts of data. This can save us a lot of extra unnecessary thinking and free up a lot of time and energy, but this mental short-cut can also be manipulated to get people to come to inaccurate conclusions. An example of how this technique can be helpful is if you have a group of people who are hostile towards you, you can identify everyone in this group as hostile and not trust them. This could potentially save your life, but ...