tag: epistemology

Category Errors: The Cardinal Sin of Sense-Making?

Theory: The root cause of most of our frustrations is forcing a mental model onto an event that doesn’t fit. That is, we make category errors. Religion is a paradigm example of this, whereby humans force the concept of morality onto natural events, when natural events are simply (and indeed, by definition) not the types of things to which morality applies. Morality is a human construct, and it does not exist independently of our own supposition.