00:00welcome viewers to truth and trends today we end our logical fallacies series with some
00:14everyday traps we all fall for so these are not just debate tricks but mistakes in daily thinking
00:21too exactly deepak let's test them out with live demos sonia if it rains the road will be wet
00:28the road is wet so it must have rained not necessarily deepak that's affirming the consequent
00:34the road could be wet because someone washed it or a tanker leaked same effect different cause oh
00:40so just because if a then b doesn't mean if b then a got it deepak do you keep money in a bank of course
00:49on the river bank near my house see that's equivocation using the same word with two
00:55meanings to confuse or mislead right like saying feathers are light what is light cannot be dark
01:01so feathers can't be dark tricky wordplay sonia i've already spent 20 000 rupees repairing my old scooter
01:09i must keep fixing it otherwise that money is wasted careful that sunk cost fallacy past investment is
01:17gone future decisions should be about future benefits not old losses sometimes it's smarter
01:24to let go hmm i see many people stay in bad jobs or relationships for the same reason here's another
01:32please pass me in the exam sir my family is poor that's sad but passing without merit won't help the
01:39student in life exactly that's appeal to pity emotions can be genuine but they don't prove the claim
01:45sonia india won after wearing the new jersey clearly the jersey brought us luck that's post hoc fallacy
01:53thinking one event caused another just because it came before correlation is not causation ah so just
02:00because i ate ice cream and then got fever doesn't mean ice cream caused it exactly from affirming the
02:07consequent to pity sunk cost wordplay and false causes these are everyday traps viewers we covered many
02:14fallacies in this series of course there are more but these are the most common and dangerous always
02:21ask does this argument prove what it claims or is it a fallacy in disguise like share and comment your
02:28experiences with such fallacies subscribe for more eye-opening content stay rational keep
02:35questioning and build scientific temper jay hind
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