<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:32:19 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/fallacy/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Price of being Stubborn: Sunken Cost Fallacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was visiting my father six or seven years ago, the first time I ever experienced the world of ride sharing, as they call it. For one reason or another, a lot of Uber clones began operating in the big]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/pob/@meno/the-price-of-being-stubborn-sunken-cost-fallacy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/pob/@meno/the-price-of-being-stubborn-sunken-cost-fallacy</guid><category><![CDATA[pob]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[meno]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 03:50:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/k75bsZMwYNu2L3iBMXq5y7xeiy1isFJsZxnMZSXuXEsxe4ee1cUkGyPeqsBDeyoNiLkHtKJcbJuW6KiZ7qR6TPG5m7UGNpGuVSmsevXWrurwYiB434ZiiBUZ3zgWb7X29YU5CeVAsLVNuTRSvJv9r7oxEg7VxaZNE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Shut or Not Shut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hi fellow Hiveians, Today I wanted to think about how easily the markets are manipulated To Shut or Not Shut Will there ever not be things looming overhead? I think that it's equally fascinating as well]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@cmplxty/to-shut-or-not-shut-bbw</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@cmplxty/to-shut-or-not-shut-bbw</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[cmplxty]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:08:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/4HFqJv9qRjVecs4xkhd5EvhidWEEBnn9tCVDBkBhQpUFvab78MhbU1VsZEjYm6YBvRodUiNzFbf15WU3CUGc1nVa7AtZCzNwHVjq42udZAhiDxawhVQ1RpdEjVC2UMSW5bDrsYoTuSVozccZw8NQ1pWVNPoUjjwUC14?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Anti-Giveaway Fallacies. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[INTRO Once again I have been a target of the so-called watchers of Hive. On my main account, where I post only to my own blog and do not ask for upvotes. Also, on a community account where I also post]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/giveaways/@lucky-elephant/the-anti-giveaway-fallacies</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/giveaways/@lucky-elephant/the-anti-giveaway-fallacies</guid><category><![CDATA[giveaways]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[lucky-elephant]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:34:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/pBMyo3B2Sao45kGEB1kRY9cJBFGQnrPp2qChGHkgVjzu1y6XFCd4yc3Ls9yNCuZCdEFpMWBT4LuCD4AXAr8DcTW4t4AMEmbdMN7oCV1z4b1iJqJyV9zSrCE1aAYXQULmzqDqJdG26FB8pCrjAkPNc8st5rLVf8Sd84g7nUS6JGaq85ka?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conspiracy theory as a fallacy in historical documentation!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello, everyone! Happy to be here. Yesterday was very hectic for me, and at the same time, there was no NEPA supply to power my phone for this contest of the week. Yesterday I ended up doing one post,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-153850/@peckypeace/conspiracy-theory-as-a-fallacy-in-historical-documentation-ftp</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-153850/@peckypeace/conspiracy-theory-as-a-fallacy-in-historical-documentation-ftp</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-153850]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[peckypeace]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:57:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2FFvzA2zeqoVPgRCnRzbu6rj6tCWHWVCA9ZaKB4ZqmQMjneeR6eYhq667jQcHteasKBQMVUakQLSCoEAZzaqyknsBh86afYGPnbomqUn6LPwz64Qa6SQCiozoYC3G?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cognitive Bias Fallacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The human brain is a fascinating lump of electrified meat. We haven't even come close to understanding ourselves yet. You know the old adage that states we "only use 10% of our brain"? Eh yeah]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@edicted/cognitive-bias-fallacy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@edicted/cognitive-bias-fallacy</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[edicted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 15:48:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/26uUsAjKTsXCDw7zixZR182JbFKvgzJ9YwsFpTVcRaGCmsqhA1unTgpqZTU2GetDaJo5RSkeDe2S4ZDTySmDHotDztx8LsavnB5K6Qa3BL7A4oGayb9jZihsjW5ULn4k8GM5LK4q4weZztp3iSrX9yZxR7jkeoQqcz4TFk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is meritocracy a fallacy? [ESP-ENG]]]></title><description><![CDATA[¿Es la meritocracia una falacia? *Fotografía propiedad del autor. * ¿Acaso el mito de la meritocracia puede ser una ideología peligrosa? Todas las ideologías son peligrosas así que siempre cuando se está]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-186119/@filoriologo/is-meritocracy-a-fallacy-espeng</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-186119/@filoriologo/is-meritocracy-a-fallacy-espeng</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-186119]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[filoriologo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 03:05:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2bP4pJr4wVimqCWjYimXJe2cnCgn8SNzZrVa78F2NTg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[My frustration with Moral Relativists.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm regularly reminded of this article. Really, the article might be more concise than I can be in regard to frustration with moral relativists. The point is made very well here that the teaching of facts]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/moral/@flexbooth/my-frustration-with-moral-relativists</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/moral/@flexbooth/my-frustration-with-moral-relativists</guid><category><![CDATA[moral]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[flexbooth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2022 01:15:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/NTy4GV6ooFRmaCXZ8UYgPhoud1kjiNX8QokLEZtbBKLuLWQ9yt7K3o4Gk2nmMzZsWTf3jiuBsgXABMm1N5jyjAr8LHz8jDhFmgZq8vLjvqKgHNFGwnbEkSjCYFSoPHXznxNYEk8ZDvQvjyDG9BMsJ5rdnw1CCrQFBA9g7fBk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you think logically?]]></title><description><![CDATA[You ever get into an argument on Hive/Ecency and the other person can only call you names and make emotional appeals? It’s so common to see because clear, logical thinking is NOT a core part of the state]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@thepholosopher/do-you-think-logically</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@thepholosopher/do-you-think-logically</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thepholosopher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2022 19:26:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/TZjG7hXReeVqFVvkXVUAoCnJ1v1VgroFt8gEbR89WUuQ2DPza9g3bKewM8NAzHf6478wnL11bj8wTS5GtufRorEHGj9npzWTqE1jWkrYxJJ4QWeg9Wy9wnnfCepvHsRsd2VqWdAtuAzAkn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you consider yourself a critical thinker?]]></title><description><![CDATA[You ever notice how public school graduates these days can barely read, write, and think? Despite decades of increased spending, students keep getting dumber and dumber as time goes on. A big part is that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@thepholosopher/do-you-consider-yourself-a</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@thepholosopher/do-you-consider-yourself-a</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thepholosopher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 17:52:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/D5zH9SyxCKdAD9rYwjD1VARAikGgLpZReGTopGBG6ER9RSr5kUHw7p94Ckd9BELg3t2ewYBkmQFFcrkAinrx6dL8KpqXapTnQnTmfEKAYxmJwvfo6qgH12gHKzfpfRamy9TGAr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Simple World Fallacy.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’d like to coin a term: Simple World Fallacy. The world is complex. Human behavior is complex; if it weren’t, we’d be better at predicting and managing it. Science is complex. The human genome has 3.2]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/complexity/@zafrada/the-simple-world-fallacy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/complexity/@zafrada/the-simple-world-fallacy</guid><category><![CDATA[complexity]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zafrada]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 22:37:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3DLAmCsuTe3ba2VJAE1ZhN2oVhekeqoshg9DUnSyUd2Cnt4YtUMpZp3tfGG48XZPTWD1DZWKhUVFfKJpFVjMyabcp9GDXADqpegKVRCccgqmchcf1v4zpdM9EPeUwmgUGC4xeKG6QmCBRygTFHWipEWh4WMxEXR?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gambler’s fallacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Evening folks! What is dependent and what is not is very interesting reading. Let me take you through a theory that you might not always be aware of this evening. Generally speaking , there are two ways]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@olebulls/the-gambler-s-fallacy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@olebulls/the-gambler-s-fallacy</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[olebulls]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2021 16:10:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rhDQWHMUTssk2L8czNCqUtuN9ZKMfHh6C1hHZ75473DMy7FX5nTZa3o2Vk5EUrhcV87ANxmLXiE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circular reasoning is bad mostly because it's not very good.
#fallacy  ...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Circular reasoning is bad mostly because it's not very good. #fallacy #logic Origin:]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-193084/@achimmertens/po5v08pbtbh3ouy8a1m5c7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-193084/@achimmertens/po5v08pbtbh3ouy8a1m5c7</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-193084]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[achimmertens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:30:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambler’s Fallacy In The Cryptocurrency Markets ...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello to my friends who love life and keep smiling despite all kinds of negativity. It is very important to think rationally in cryptocurrency markets. If you want to make money in these markets, you shouldn't]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@acikgoz/gambler-s-fallacy-in-the-cryptocurrency-markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@acikgoz/gambler-s-fallacy-in-the-cryptocurrency-markets</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[acikgoz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2021 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2bP4pJr4wVimqCWjYimXJe2cnCgnAf98AEoDb189xBx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whataboutism.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whataboutism is a fallacy in argument hinging on the accusation of hypocrisy. It goes back to Cold War attempts to refute accusations about communist evil by pointing out that the west committed evils]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/policy/@leguna/whataboutism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/policy/@leguna/whataboutism</guid><category><![CDATA[policy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[leguna]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2020 21:23:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/EfcLDDAkyqgrWe7KyyRHnJEfDrB3t7mryHMnZjJqPcMqJRzu7AYbj4dcJTrtk6pLdbnJwHjxFMCNSGKs1ouNST3iW8mrN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commentary on the ad hominem fallacy.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Image source "The value of an idea has nothing to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it." Oscar Wilde Let's start by clarifying, the title should have been about the ad hominem argument,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/quote/@pedrobrito2004/commentary-on-the-ad-hominem-fallacy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/quote/@pedrobrito2004/commentary-on-the-ad-hominem-fallacy</guid><category><![CDATA[quote]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pedrobrito2004]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2020 21:24:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/21PRtjKRXPQyqPZspHonUosQC2x6utkepmkkpEgjyDxzruRn9F2vTSDzFT33dqKELN4SjnXjvqfFbtN2DGwpnaQWtm1Hw7nMiELz7WUsAiiZjpNuL7VC7DwmvEjywZArnv5X9Mamg3WWY6iJSd3GpvJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comentario de la falacia ad hominem.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fuente de la imagen "El valor de una idea no tiene nada que ver con la sinceridad del hombre que la expresa." Oscar Wilde Comencemos aclarando, el título debería haber sido sobre el argumento]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/quote/@pedrobrito2004/comentario-de-la-falacia-ad-hominem</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/quote/@pedrobrito2004/comentario-de-la-falacia-ad-hominem</guid><category><![CDATA[quote]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pedrobrito2004]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:07:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/21PRtjKRXPQyqPZspHonUosQC2x6utkepmkkpEgjyDxzruRn9F2vTSDzFT33dqKELN4SjnXjvqfFbtN2DGwpnaQWtm1Hw7nMiELz7WUsAiiZjpNuL7VC7DwmvEjywZArnv5X9Mamg3WWY6iJSd3GpvJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunk Cost Fallacy - Desperately Wanting The End To Justify The Means]]></title><description><![CDATA['Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.' —Aubrey de Grey The best way to disarm our biases is to first become aware of them. The concept of sunk cost fallacy has it that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@steemityourway/sunk-cost-fallacy-desperately-wanting-the-end-to-justify-the-means</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@steemityourway/sunk-cost-fallacy-desperately-wanting-the-end-to-justify-the-means</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[steemityourway]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:37:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/FUkUE5bzkAZTc8XrXe4rDef9xV1Fm7UXUNXjikkYqyxcDv95JfvbX6sNKVTBMtBsWqMgfv8L5H6zT8ANuxfzyojq8ipiXnL2jAhsr1GJgsi84TT6rrE3arM4wb9VDpvoYobFYVC3WQhss3R3KLzF69bGkCVHbcRvWqvE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissecting the straw man argument.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don't know who needs to hear this, but a straw man argument is not just any argument you think is bad. A straw man argument is when someone creates a false version of your argument that is intentionally]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/logic/@arbitration/dissecting-the-straw-man-argument</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/logic/@arbitration/dissecting-the-straw-man-argument</guid><category><![CDATA[logic]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[arbitration]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2020 23:45:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/5bEGgqZEHBMe6s3wiPgGFTi3naqHERgdwJew6rJYRaB3RR7sSAdZKnpJsFx5ZTUUrUibFNjZtVJFw2n52vgccUa8YNKtGBR8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Political Speech and The Absurd]]></title><description><![CDATA[A short time ago, I was looking for information in Spanish and I found myself by chance with a cartoon about political speeches that gave me enough things to think about, at the time I wrote a post about]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@pedrobrito2004/the-political-speech-and-the-absurd</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@pedrobrito2004/the-political-speech-and-the-absurd</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pedrobrito2004]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:36:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/EEEoA8oLaAxsynowFFk4q5APVnfxgEwyabVG5xtcbhaKEfkhiD5r7tJURYRQ4NrjZRiwGUGeAtJZ2WSxb3eK8aPrjq6x1iyNg11qabcbedeKtN7BzmsD48Asu13wbKoNCqqgcfW5orbQhecXbEUZt?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discurso Político y el Absurdo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fuente de imagen Estaba buscando una información en la web cuando de pronto me encontré con esta caricatura y (además de reírme un buen rato) quedé pensativo sobre como es una realidad que los discursos]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/spanish/@pedrobrito2004/discurso-politico-y-el-absurdo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/spanish/@pedrobrito2004/discurso-politico-y-el-absurdo</guid><category><![CDATA[spanish]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[pedrobrito2004]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:41:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2FFvz9vxu46eAUF8NWd2aTiyg9tLKMZGwTNE5zV2HWAuSZtagPdBovXQ2WAQ54zASscYwidETun7uNjHooCdun6ujrv99H2BwcxHwZkR1uBdEj4c79A4uEgV49hok?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>