Apophenia is the fallacy of seeing unmotivated connections in random information, often accompanied by a feeling of abnormal meaningfulness, as seen in tendencies like gambling.
Apophenia é a falácia de ver conexões não motivadas em informações aleatórias, frequentemente acompanhada por uma sensação de significado anormal, como visto em tendências como o jogo.
| 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. |
Tags: fallacies
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