| Fallacy | Apophenia |
|---|---|
| Definition and Examples | the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness". Axxxxxxxx has come to imply a universal human tendency to seek patterns in random information, such as gambling. |
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