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Now here’s another example of the affirming the consequent fallacy. This example destroys happiness in many marriages. Either the wife, the husband, or both, may commit this fallacy, but we’ll use an example of the husband’s thinking. In this scenario, the wife wasn’t feeling well and was irritable when her husband came home. Unconsciously, the husband affirmed the consequent by saying, in his mind, if his wife didn’t love him, he would predict that she would act as she’s acting. Carrying his reasoning a step further, he then used his observation of her irritable attitude to prove to himself that she didn’t love him. A few days later, she unknowingly put something into the trash that he wanted to save. Again he used the same prediction fallacy to conclude that she was an uncaring person. And as he continually relived these experiences and others, he developed internal bitterness. Over time, he began to have a worldview in which his wife was evil and nasty, and this worldview began to show itself in his attitude toward her. Of course, she reacted in the way we would expect, and he, in turn, saw her reaction as confirming what he had predicted all along. Now he had “absolute evidence” from many sources that “conclusively showed” that she wasn’t right for him and that he needed to get a divorce. Of course, this husband is living in a fantasy, and his fantasy is causing pain to him, to his wife, to his children, and to those who have to watch.
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