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Lisa Bortolotti on Irrationality

Philosophy Bites

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Psychologists found that we have wide range of systematic reasoning mistakes. We tend to work out whether something is probable on the basis of whether it is plausible given the things that we know. People tend to confuse plausibility, how the profile fits with the description, with the probability of the another area where irrationality comes up is in relation to psychiatric problems.

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