You’re right. As romeostevensit pointed out, “commonsense ideas rarely include information about the domain of applicability.” My issue with self-fulfilling prophecy is that it gets misapplied, but I don’t think it is an irretrievably bad idea.
This insightful verse from the Tao Te Ching is an exemplary application of the self-fulfilling prophecy:
If you don’t trust the people, you make them untrustworthy.
You’re right. As romeostevensit pointed out, “commonsense ideas rarely include information about the domain of applicability.” My issue with self-fulfilling prophecy is that it gets misapplied, but I don’t think it is an irretrievably bad idea.
This insightful verse from the Tao Te Ching is an exemplary application of the self-fulfilling prophecy:
It explicitly states a feedback loop.
You can add it to Self Fulfilling/Refuting Prophecies as an example