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**The Deepity**
Ambiguity is one of those things that makes people people sound smarter then they really are. See through it.
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> **A “deepity” is a proposition that *seems* both important and true–and profound–but that achieves this effect by being ambiguous.**
Daniel Dennett: Tools for Critical Thinking
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Causal Reductionism: Things rarely happen for just 1 reason. Usually, outcomes result from many causes conspiring together. But our minds cannot process such a complex arrangement, so we tend to ascribe outcomes to single causes, reducing the web of causality to a mere thread.
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