(September 6, 2021 at 7:47 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Confirmation bias.
Thanks. The missionaries stopped by last weekend (or it might have been before last; they were looking for my mother but she wasn't home so I took the opportunity to engage them). This "read the book and pray" crap came up and it reminded me of this "there's no 'it's wrong' answer you could get" fallacy but I couldn't think of what it was called or why it was wrong to frame the inquiry of truth that way. So, I let it go and we talked about my issues with the repentance process and blood magic instead. But it's been bugging me.
Growing up with this confirmation bias as my mode of thinking, I have difficulty articulating why it is incorrect to frame the inquiry of truth this way. Like, its wrong because you can't ask a question and have only one possible answer? Does that sound right?
