Comparing Apples to Lightbulbs
This post is about categorisation errors, and about how confusing such fallacies are when applied without thought. Let’s start with a simplified example.
mathematician: Understand Math?
Other guy: Absolutely!
mathematician: What’s 2 x 2
Other guy: 6
mathematician: Um, isn’t that 4?
Other guy: Well, my belief system is different…
The mathematician is obviously refering to simple arithmetic. The other guy however is somewhere else. Not only did he get the sum wrong, he’s gone ahead and botched up the category itself. It’s like comparing apples to lightbulbs. Confounding and frustrating. What does one do when …