Scientific Definition
Saying it often enough until objections fade.
Plain-English Definition
Saying it often enough until objections fade.
Feynman Explanation
Ad nauseam is not a proof.
Core Principle
Saying it often enough until objections fade.
Mechanisms
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Strategic narratives ossify through repetition, not evidence.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Ad nauseam is not a proof.
Examples
- A talking point that becomes 'true' inside the company because nobody contests it anymore.
- Strategic narratives ossify through repetition, not evidence.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Periodically re-litigate the assumptions everyone has stopped questioning.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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- Periodically re-litigate the assumptions everyone has stopped questioning.
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Using an authority's opinion as evidence, regardless of its merits.
Concluding that a claim is false because the argument for it is flawed.
Claiming something is true because it has not been proven false.
Drawing a conclusion from the absence of evidence rather than its presence.
Deriving general rules from specific examples; the leap from instance to concept.
The brain evolved to reason adaptively, not always truthfully, to reduce the cost of errors.
We solve problems by adding, even when subtracting would be better.
Assuming that if one option is true, another must be false, when both can be true.
Presuming a purposeful actor behind events that may have no actor at all.
What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating.
A finite set of well-defined instructions for solving a problem or performing a computation.
Every model simplifies reality; some are still useful.