Generalization
A situation in which a father and his son are in a car that crashes on a tree and the father is
killed. The boy is rushed to the hospital for an emergency surgery. On entering the surgery room, the
surgeon says ‘’I cannot operate this boy, he is my son.’’ This is an example of a hasty
generalization. The paradox is resolved when you think that the boy has another parent, a mother also.
The surgeon is a woman. Sometimes our mind goes in a conclusion and sticks there. What happens in this
paradox is that we think in general when we hear a profession that this person is a man, when the
gender is not specified by any hint, then the mind associates on its own situations, it fills the
gaps.
Generalizing in general (that is one of my own paradoxes or maybe I’ve heard it somewhere I do not
remember) is usually a mistaken practice as it is jumping to conclusions with limited evidence and
information. For example when a guy you know takes a Viagra once just for the experience, to test the
effects. Should you then conclude that this guy has erectile dysfunction? You have a piece of evidence
that orientates you towards this conclusion, but you do not bother to search in depth, you fill in the
gaps.
To claim determinism as a rational argument in a debate is falsehood, as only gravity, death and other
laws of physics are determined only. This claim so is double self-defeating as to count as rational ,a
belief must be freely chosen, and for the determinist this is impossible, and also it has been
observed and it is easily for you to observe it also with people you know, that when in a debate, any
kind of debate is based on the concept that both sides, or every party involved tries to change each
others minds, convert into one’s own opinions, the ‘right opinion’. I say there’s not such a thing as
the right opinion, just the prevalent opinion.
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