Metalogical Metabiases

Biases in how we think about metalogical choices and the very criteria we use to judge logical systems. It's bias two levels up. For example, valuing aesthetic elegance or psychological comfort over practical utility when deciding which logical framework to adopt for describing the world. It's the irrational driver behind your rational choice of rationality tools.

Metalogical Metabiases Example: A physicist prefers string theory over loop quantum gravity not due to empirical data (there is none), but because of a Metalogical Metabias: they find its mathematical beauty and conceptual unity more compelling. The bias is in the meta-criterion ("beauty") used to choose between competing metalogical frameworks for quantum gravity.

Metalogical Metabiases by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 4, 2026