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070 - The No True Scotsman Fallacy

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

Science, Psychology, Brain, Business, Mental Health, Culture, Neuroscience, Mind, Health

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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When your identity becomes intertwined with your …

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Some people love going to the mall, they love going to stores, they love trying on clothes in the three mirror room.

0:05.0

I hate every second of it. I want something easier. I want to live in the future. I want to buy clothes over the internet in cyberspace. But every time I do that, it's a huge

0:16.9

hassle, maybe even worse than being in the store. Stuff is sent to your house and there's all these

0:22.0

boxes and they don't make it easy to send it back and it doesn't look as good as it did on the internet.

0:26.0

What can we do?

0:28.0

Well someone figured it out and they're called Trunk Club.

0:32.0

Trunk Club.com. Go to this website. It explains everything and if you go to

0:37.2

Trunk Club.com slash smart you will get free shipping both ways and a free styling session with a real human being, a personal stylist who will pick out clothes just for you.

0:52.0

Only pay for the clothes that you like and that you keep, send the rest back, no charge, no subscription fees.

0:59.2

No hidden charges, just great clothes in the future.

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Trunk Club.com slash smart. Oh, Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode 70. This is the fourth episode in a series of episodes, a season of episodes all about

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logical fallacies.

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Mm-hmm, that's right.

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Logical fallacies.

2:13.2

When we argue with each other and you know how you love to argue, we try to justify everything

2:20.7

that we've ever believed, even though we know we've been wrong so many times in the

2:25.6

past we come up with false conclusions we nurture bad premises we kick nuance through the front door and throw all of his clothes out through the window

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and say, don't you ever come back here? And we assume that everyone else is just dumb. or for some reason

2:44.4

Can't see things the way we see them which is of course the right way

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In the last three episodes we built a sort of foundation you learned about the

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fallacy the straw man fallacy and the black and white fallacy which if you have a

2:58.8

good understanding of those three fallacies then you can start exploring the more complicated and specific

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