Branches of philosophy – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Sun, 25 Aug 2019 23:11:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 83044199 Common Misconceptions https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2011/01/06/common-misconceptions/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2011/01/06/common-misconceptions/#respond Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:12:34 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/common-misconceptions Every now and then, someone always says that such and such is a misconception, the truth is actually xyz.  Many misconceptions spread virally over time such as things like “Goldfish have only a three-second memory span”, and that “lightning never strikes the same place twice”.  Wikipedia has a nice article that explains a lot of the common misconceptions that people believe.  After reading this article, much of what I thought was true actually turned out to be false.  This article was definitely a good read.

Link: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

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