External Variables of Logic

The chaotic, real-world factors that corrupt pure logical reasoning when it leaves the textbook and enters human brains. These are the cognitive biases, emotional states, social pressures, and physical limitations that ensure no actual human being ever reasons with perfect formal logic. You might know that A implies B, but if B triggers your childhood trauma, your brain will find seventeen creative ways to deny the implication. External Variables are why logic puzzles are easy and real arguments are impossible—because real arguments involve sleep deprivation, ego, and that thing your dad said in 1998.

External Variables of Logic "In theory, I should have accepted his apology and moved on. But the External Variables of Logic—namely, the memory of every time he'd done this before—made that rationally optimal choice emotionally impossible."

by Dumu The Void February 23, 2026

External Variables

Factors originating outside a system or study that influence outcomes but are not part of the model being tested. In experimental research, external variables are everything the researcher didn't design, didn't control, and often didn't consider. They include weather, politics, economic conditions, cultural events, personal histories—the entire buzzing chaos of reality that can't be confined in a laboratory. Good research designs attempt to control for external variables through randomization, blinding, or statistical adjustment, but they can never eliminate them entirely. External variables are why causation is so difficult to establish: the thing you think is causing your effect might just be correlated with some external factor you never noticed.

External Variables Example: "The classroom intervention seemed to work perfectly, but the external variable—a new education policy implemented the same week—made it impossible to know what actually caused the improvement."

by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026

External Twins

Two children genetically of the same parents born in close proximity to one another, most often with the use of a surrogate mother.

I had trouble conceiving and hired a surrogate, but to my surprise I also became pregnant soon after. The babies were born 2 weeks apart as external Twins.

by Walter Schwartz May 20, 2025

external ejaculation tactics

a tactic of masturbation in males including several methods like chinese pocket, japanese self-pleasure, indian air, etc. by which guys can ejaculate and fap when they need to, particularly in situations when they are outside and its urgent. by these tactics, they can fap without fully opening their pants and still ejaculate externally on their pants on lower dressing...

A: bro I NEED TO FAP RN
B: just use some external ejaculation tactics bro

by Okok32 July 21, 2025

External bank internal accounting fraud

When a bank client requests financial support and the external bank refuses to credit the client dashboard, or the client requests an authorised credit note to be posted to the external live bank dashboard and the bank doesn't do it or when a bank client sends a proof of payment from a fintech bank to an external bank and they don't credit the external bank dashboard it is suspected external bank internal accounting fraud.

I'm tempted to report the external banks to the police at the police station regarding external bank internal accounting fraud but I don't like talking on the phone or going to the police station to try open a case as it pulls in a whole bunch of new people I don't want to deal with.

by Patrick01 December 17, 2025

Quantum Exterminator

Quantum Exterminator - He/She who kills micro bugs on a quantum level, with alien technology's not used in regular healthcare systems.

Known as "rejuvenate action"

Think Frequency, Sound, Viberation.

I need to go to the local Quantum Exterminator to get kid of these lyme bugs.

by [e-mail] September 24, 2020

Bird Exterminator

A man (or woman) who has an extreme talent at acquiring women, most likely plays lacrosse or hockey. You can spot these phenomenon's at the rink, field, bars or anywhere else there is a high population of well known birds in the area.

"Yo dude, did you hear about the nations #1 bird exterminator?"
"No, but I saw him at the bar chirping an absolute 10. Looks like he acquired the kill"

by Keypad69 February 13, 2021