Logic Metabiases

Second-order biases about logic itself—biases in how we evaluate, teach, and apply logical systems. Logic Metabiases include: treating classical logic as the baseline and others as deviations; assuming logical skill is innate rather than learned; using logic to police rather than to understand; believing that more logic always leads to better thinking; assuming logical people are less biased. Logic Metabiases are biases about logic's role, value, and nature—not biases in logical reasoning, but biases in how we relate to logic as a practice.

Logic Metabiases "He thinks studying logic makes him objective. That's Logic Metabias—confusing logical training with freedom from bias. Logic is a tool; using it doesn't make you unbiased—it just gives you a particular kind of training. The metabias is thinking logic is above bias, when it's actually one of the places bias hides best."

Logic Metabiases by Dumu The Void March 1, 2026