The Moses Illusion

The moses illusion is a persistent mental phenomena that could be called knowledge neglect. People do not always understand what is said to them, sometimes they and while these failures of comprehension are sometimes due to lack of appropriate knowledge or error on the part of the speaker. But there are other cases in which such failures occur when the understander possesses all the knowledge necessary for correct understanding. This paper explores such a phenomenon. The authors conclude that shared semantic features of mix up are probably significantly contributing to the effect.