Overly Confidence Or A False Cause Fallacy?

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Overly Confidence can breed ignorance to anyone’s character and people may be likely to repent from establishing and or maintaining any relationship with you. Moreover, you can become susceptible to the “fallacy fallacy” where you always intend to spot and exploit when the opposite person falls victim to any fallacy.

In my personal observation we can all be better at making decision because we are predictably rational. Our intuition and way of deciphering things can influence our cognitive system. In this case, concluding that the state of his (Tom) roof was punched by the fact that Lerato is overweight is a “false cause fallacy”. By stating this out and turning it into an advantage point for winning the argument, Lerato points out Toms mistake

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