This isn’t a fallacy; this is just trusting the information you’re given. You’ve gamed the system to break expectations.
Someone tells me, “Don’t touch the stove when it’s red; it will burn your hand.” That’s the hypothesis. I’m assuming it’s built on some experience and knowledge. Of course I’m going to privilege this particular hypothesis instead of the many others, like “When the stove is red, you will win the lottery,” or “When the stove is red, you can’t die.” I’m trying to get up to speed on an ongoing situation, and so I’m going to trust that some hypotheses have already been discarded as useless by those who are informing me of the situation.
Someone who spends all day thinking about whether the Trinity exists is probably doing so because his parents raised him in Christianity, and so he is trusting his parents’ wisdom, or he was told about Christianity from a missionary, who he trusts. We trust experts. I don’t see this as a bad thing.
This isn’t a fallacy; this is just trusting the information you’re given. You’ve gamed the system to break expectations.
Someone tells me, “Don’t touch the stove when it’s red; it will burn your hand.” That’s the hypothesis. I’m assuming it’s built on some experience and knowledge. Of course I’m going to privilege this particular hypothesis instead of the many others, like “When the stove is red, you will win the lottery,” or “When the stove is red, you can’t die.” I’m trying to get up to speed on an ongoing situation, and so I’m going to trust that some hypotheses have already been discarded as useless by those who are informing me of the situation.
Someone who spends all day thinking about whether the Trinity exists is probably doing so because his parents raised him in Christianity, and so he is trusting his parents’ wisdom, or he was told about Christianity from a missionary, who he trusts. We trust experts. I don’t see this as a bad thing.