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  2. Argument from incredulity - Wikipedia

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    Argument from incredulity. Argument from incredulity, also known as argument from personal incredulity, appeal to common sense, or the divine fallacy, [1] is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition must be false because it contradicts one's personal expectations or beliefs, or is difficult to imagine.

  3. Common sense - Wikipedia

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    Collective intelligence. Common sense is "knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument". [1] As such, it is often considered to represent the basic level of sound practical judgement or knowledge of basic facts that any adult human being ought to possess. [2]

  4. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    Argument from incredulity (appeal to common sense) – "I cannot imagine how this could be true; therefore, it must be false." [ 62 ] Argument from repetition ( argumentum ad nauseam or argumentum ad infinitum ) – repeating an argument until nobody cares to discuss it any more and referencing that lack of objection as evidence of support for ...

  5. Commonsense knowledge (artificial intelligence) - Wikipedia

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    Using widely held beliefs about everyday objects, or common sense knowledge, AI systems make common sense assumptions or default assumptions about the unknown similar to the way people do. In an AI system or in English, this is expressed as "Normally P holds", "Usually P" or "Typically P so Assume P". For example, if we know the fact "Tweety is ...

  6. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Greater likelihood of recalling recent, nearby, or otherwise immediately available examples, and the imputation of importance to those examples over others. Bizarreness effect: Bizarre material is better remembered than common material. Boundary extension: Remembering the background of an image as being larger or more expansive than the ...

  7. Commonsense reasoning - Wikipedia

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    Commonsense reasoning. In artificial intelligence (AI), commonsense reasoning is a human-like ability to make presumptions about the type and essence of ordinary situations humans encounter every day. These assumptions include judgments about the nature of physical objects, taxonomic properties, and peoples' intentions.

  8. Argument from ignorance - Wikipedia

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    John Locke. Argument from ignorance (from Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logic. The fallacy is committed when one asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false ...

  9. Logical reasoning - Wikipedia

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    Logical reasoning is a mental activity that aims to arrive at a conclusion in a rigorous way. It happens in the form of inferences or arguments by starting from a set of premises and reasoning to a conclusion supported by these premises. The premises and the conclusion are propositions, i.e. true or false claims about what is the case.