Do Men Prefer Purity – The Need for Cognitive Awareness and Focus Part 1

Remember, I am not diagnosing anyone in this video nor am I making personal attacks. I am utilizing behavior to illustrate important concepts.

Decoupling: To separate and identify as distinct two or more concepts or terms that have been mistakenly combined into one.

In addition to the application of decoupling to concepts as abstractions, it is important to apply decoupling to statements. Statements, previously considered to be the same, can be separated and each evaluated on its own merits. Sometimes, once statements are separated, one can be found to be nonsensical and not lucid while the remaining statement can be found to be quite reasonable.

Subject Change (as a logical fallacy): Known also as the red herring fallacy, it is the fallacy that occurs when a person uses an irrelevant claim to redirect the discussion moving the conversation way from the original topic.  This can be done purposefully or by accident. It can be done consciously or unconsciously.

Subject Change is also a phenomenon in a debate that requires clarification. Parties in a debate might not be aware that they have changed the subject, so it is helpful to clarify the subject and the direction of the debate.

Causal Reductionism: (Also somewhat dramatically known as “the fallacy of the single cause”) A thinking error in which on assumes a single cause or reason for a phenomenon when there are multiple causes and reasons for said phenomenon.

It’s also useful to recognize that reductionism or oversimplification can be expanded beyond a fallacy of the single cause to an error of too few causes. After all, any phenomenon impacted by twenty factors in a complex fashion, when reduced to three causes, has been greatly diminished in its complexity in the mind of the reducer.

Note of Irony: Some practices of feminism assume women to be automatically victims and to be less than men while still calling the presumption feminism.