“To understand the human mind, understand self-deception.”
-Anon
The word ‘fallacy’ derives from two Latin words, fallax (“deceptive”) and fallere (“to deceive”). This is an important concept in human life because much human thinking deceives itself while deceiving others. The human mind has no natural guide to the truth, nor does it naturally love the truth. What the human mind loves is itself, what serves it, what flatters if, what gives it what it wants, and what strikes down and destroys whatever “threatens” it.
-Fallacies: The Art of Mental Trickery and Manipulation
-By Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder
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