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Thursday, August 29, 2019

Context Dropping

The reason the modern world of thinking has been perverted by context dropping, or as logicians call it, the "fallacy of suppressed evidence," is that few people realize that all phenomena everywhere are interconnected. For example, if you search enough, you can discover meaningful relationships between, say, the color of a particular lipstick and the price of tamales in Tijuana.

Although connections between given phenomena may not be relevant to a particular issue, surprisingly often they are - we just won't allow ourselves to see ALL the influences at play in most cases. Thus context dropping is really a symptom of closed mindedness.

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