This topic is closely related to the cognitive biases. Here, I want to give some every day examples of how we fool ourselves by taking shortcuts and not using our frontal lobes to find real answers…
I don’t know – therefore God is responsible.
I don’t know – therefore you can’t know either.
I’ve heard about it in my daily news infotainment show – therefore I have already an opinion and I won’t change it ever again.
Dunning-Kruger effect.
Correlation is the same as causation.
I know this pattern from somewhere else – therefore it is the same.
This article agrees with the opinion I already have – therefore it is true.