How First Principles Thinking Fails
Thinking is split roughly into pattern matching against experience, and reasoning from first principles. Here's one argument for why you need both.
Source: commoncog.com
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Thinking is split roughly into pattern matching against experience, and reasoning from first principles. Here's one argument for why you need both.
One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.