The Latticework

We favor action over inaction.

We are tethered to the first piece of information.

We can only focus on so many things at a time.

We are influenced by the preferences of others.

Individuals are less likely to offer assistance to a victim when ther are other people present.

We tend to remain committed to endeavors despite information suggesting abandonment is preferred.

We seek information that confirms an idea or belief we already have.

People with low ability/knowledge overestimate their ability/knowledge.

We prefer that with which we are familiar over the unfamiliar.

We are influenced by the manner in which options are presented to us.

We convince ourselves after an event that we knew the outcome all along.

The pursuit of perfect fairness in life.

A loss feels worse than a gain feels good.

A tendency to believe we are less likely to experience a negative event.

The tendency to judge the quality of a decision based only on its outcome.

A tendency to believe we are more likely to experience a negative event.

We tend to want reasons for something but don't care to understand the reasoning itself.

We overweight the likelihood of recent events happening again over other historic events.

We judge the past more favorably than we judge the present.

We can tend to perceive ourselves in an overly favorable manner.

We prefer things the way they are over change.

We examine infromation of those who prevailed while excluding those who failed.

Purchasing value of money increases; less money is needed to pay for things.

Bad money drives out good money.

Purchasing value of money decreases; more money is needed to pay for things.

The loss of the benefit that could have been enjoyed had a given choice not been made.

The result of the gap between limited resources and limitless wants.

A model that determines a price point where the quantity of a good demanded will equal the quantity of the good supplied.

Benefitting from disorder. Might suffer from order.

Dynamic systems where the whole cannot necessarily be predicted/understood by simply knowing its components.

Items listed (oftentimes in order of chronological importance) to help in the proper completion of an endeavor.

A limitation or restriction.

A state of balance in a system. 

A process in which the outputs of a system influence the inputs.

A heavy wheel that is used to increase momentum. Also a concept in business to create systems that generate momentum. 

Suffering from disorder. Might benefit from order.

The tendency to move towards equilibrium (balance).

The system is improved exponentially as the number of participants/features increases.

The tendency to do the easy thing.

A process in which testing and reviews are conducted to ensure a product or service meets specific requirements.

The inclusion of extra components that are not necessary to functioning, but they provide the ability to overcome failures.

Intentionally exceeding a calculation in the attempt to cover unforeseen risks/events.

A technique of keeping parts of a system apart from each other to prevent malfunctions spreading between or among them. Compartmentalization.

A tactic where instead of addressing an argument, idea, or issue, you personally attack your opponent.

Making an argument based on evidence collected in a non-scientific manner.

Insisting a claim is true simply because an authority or expert on the manner said so.

Using pieces of historical evidence to make a general truth about the past.

Insisting that a claim is correct if it cannot be disproved by others. AKA appeal to ignorance fallacy.

Using a bad example to make a generalization.

Arguing that because "A" is correlated to "B", "A" must cause "B".

Defining one thing in terms of another.

Insisting that because an argument contains a fallacy it must be false.

A statement constructed to only indicate two potential options instead of considering additional options.

Where two different things that share something in common are treated as the same (e.g. apples and oranges).

Belief that if a particular event occurs more frequently than normal during the past then it is more likely again to happen in the future, or vice versa (hot/cold streaks).

A general statement made based on an insufficient or unrepresentative sample of data.

Arguing that a compromise between two extreme or conflicting views is true.

An attempt to protect a universal generalization from counterexamples by changing the definition in an ad hoc fashion to exclude the counterexample.

Asserting that a proposition must be false because it contradicts one's personal expectations or beliefs, or is difficult to imagine.

A fallacy of circular argument; the conclusion is taken for granted in the premises.

If "A" follows "B", then "A" caused "B".

Introducing an irrelevant topic into a discussion with the intention of diverting attention away from the main topic.

Asserting that a certain action will cause a series of events that lead to a bad outcome.

Insisting that an outcome is due to chance when the evidence/likelihood suggests otherwise. AKA appeal to coincidence.

A tactic where someone takes someone else's argument and exaggerates or distorts it in order to make it easier to attack.

Arguing that an edeavor is worth continuing because certain costs have already been put into it.

An attack on a person's behavior when it is inconsistent with their argument; the argument is hyprocrisy.

Information that all participants know and all participants know all other participants know it too.

A pact where a person trades something of moral or spiritual importance for a material benefit.

A game with agreed upon rules and timeframe.

A game where there are no agreed upon rules; the goal is to keep the game going.

Someone who makes unknown or private knowledge public; creates common knowledge.

A rational player chooses the best action given what the other player is doing.

A game in which the total gains and losses is less than zero.

A situation where no individual or group can be better off without making at least one other individual or other group worse off.

A game in which the total gains and losses is greater than zero.

A situation where two parties choose to protect themselves at the expense of the other party. It often does not produce the optimal outcome that working together would achieve.

A strategy in which each participant mimics the action of their opponent. It emphasizes cooperation.

A situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according to their own self interest, behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling the shared resource through their collective action.

Partial reinforcement where a portion of actions are reinforced. There is no consistent pattern.

Commonly the product of emotional bidding where the winner gets the asset that was on auction but at the expense of overpaying.

A situation where each participant's gain or loss is exactly balanced by the other participants. If one person wins, the other loses.

The abstract mathematical means to show two different things as being equal. 

A fixed value or a number not tied to a variable.

The rate of change of a function with respect to a variable. The opposite of an integral. 

The branch of math concerned with the size, shape, and angles of lines/rays.

The approximate area under a curvilinear region by breaking the region into infinite vertical bars. the opposite of a derivate.

The product of any number -- regardless of how large the number is -- multiplied by zero is always zero.

Sticking to that which we understand and avoiding decisions outside of our expertise.

The first basis from which a thing is known, a basic assumption or idea that cannot be deduced any further.

Incentives influence outcomes. Show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome.

One should not attribute to malice that which is more easily explained by stupidity or ignorance.

The practice of turning a problem upside down and starting from another point. Invert, always invert.

Simple explanations are more likely to be correct than complicated ones.

A type of thought experiment where you imagine an endeavor has failed and you then try to determine what could lead to that failure.

Process at the conclusion of an endeavor to analyze elements that were successful and unsuccessful.

Estimating the likelihood of an outcome or various outcomes.

Considers the knock-on effects of a decision. Basically, determining the effects of effects.

Considering classifications on a continuum.

Starting an endeavor helps you overcome the effects of inertia and allows you to fail quickly in order to optimize.

Language is fluid and certain words/phrases mean different things to different people. Identify common ground in order to have meaningful conversations.

Using representations (maps) of complex things is immensely helpful, but limited.

A method of speculating on future consequences of decisions made today.

A change in speed and/or direction.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it is transformed from one form to another or transferred from one system to another.

The minimum amount of fissile material needed to maintain a nuclear chain reaction.

A form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles.

Magnetism developed by a current of electricity.

The capacity for doing work. Some forms of energy include: potential, kinetic, electrical, chemical, nuclear, and thermal.

A measure of the amount of disorder in a system.

The resistance that one surface/object encounters when moving over another.

The universal force of attraction between matter.

Energy in an object by virtue of it being in motion. Equal to 1/2 mass multiplied by the squared velocity.

The ability through the use of tools to use a small amount of power to gain a disproportionately greater advantage on the outcome.

A physical phenomenon where fields that attract or repel other objects.

The product of an object's velocity and mass. Includes magnitude and direction.

Inertia. An object in motion tends to stay in motion; an object at rest tends to stay at rest.

The force on an object is equal to its mass multiplied by its acceleration.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Energy stored in an object due to its relative position. Equal to the product of mass, the gravitational acceleration, and the height of the object.

The amount of energy transferred or converted per unit of time; equal to work divided by time.

The resistance of a liquid's surface to an external force; caused by cohesive forces between liquid molecules.

A scalar distance per unit of time; direction is not included.

The measure of atomic particle kinetic energy (movement).

If two bodies are each in thermal equilibrium with some third body, then they are also in equilibrium with each other.

The total increase in energy of a system is equal to the increase in thermal energy plus the work done on the system.

Heat energy cannoth be transferred from a body at a lower temperature to a body at a higher temperature without the addition of energy.

A system's entropy approaches a constant value as its temperature approaches absolute zero.

Indefinite continued progress of existence and events. The passage of time is influenced by mass, distance, and speed.

The rotational equivalent of linear force.

A vector distance per unit of time; direction is included.

The measure of a fluid's resistance to flow.

The measure of energy transfer that occurs when an object is moved over a distance by an external force. At least part of the force has to be in the direction of the displacement.

The figure of a hidden meaning.

A figure that builds one thought on top of another by taking the last word of a clause and using it to begin the next clause.

A figure that repeats the first word in succeeding phrases or clauses. It works best in an emotional address before a crowd.

A logical fallacy that attributes human traits to a nonhuman creature or object. Common to owners of pets.

The figure of contrasting ideas.

Doubt or ignorance - feigned or real - used as a rhetorical device.

A rhetorical figure where words or concepts are repeated in reverse order, either in the same or modified form.

The use of many words in the attempt to be purposefully vague to avoid getting to the point.

Conceding to seem to agree with your opponent, only to use it to your advantage.

Juxtaposes potential future outcomes to communicate either support or opposition.

Persuasion (usually in the present) that deals with values that bring a group together (epideictic).

Logical dialogue with the purpose of discovering the truth.

A dialogue figure; quoting a conversation as an example.

This-is-not-that figure; presenting of either-or arguments that lead to a conclusion.

A play-by-play where a single subject is accompanied by multiple verbs.

Freedom from special interests; a trait of ethos (eunoia).

Feigned doubt about your ability to speak well.

A visually powerful description that creates a vivid image in the mind of the audience.

An argument in which one premise is not explicitly stated but rather implied.

Interposing an opposition or correction, often to clarify what has just been stated.

A figure that appears to say one thing while meaning the opposite.

A competitive argument for the sake of argument.

Argument by character.

Amplifying a point by providing true or feigned samples.

Argument that determines guilt or innocence; usually focuses on the past.

A figure that asks a rhetorical question and then immediately answers it.

A group of words that put together form a non-literal meaning (e.g. speak of the devil).

Proving the wrong conclusion.

A technique for planting a negative idea in the audience's mind through allusive remarks or hints.

Seizing the moment through proper use of timing and medium.

The figure of ironic understatement; usually negative.

Argument by logic.

Self-correcting figure; you stop to correct yourself with a stronger point.

A figure that makes a word or phrase represent something else.

A figure that skips over an awkward or unpleasant matter.

Substituting an attribute for the thing itself (e.g. suit instead of executive).

A newly created word.

A statement that doesn't logically follow the previous statement.

A figure that imitates a sound to name the sound.

A model that arises from examples or patterns.

A self-contradictory statement.

A figure in which you mention something by saying you aren't going to mention it.

A figure that attaches a surprise ending to a thought.

Argument by emotion.

The use of indirect speech; it uses description as a name.

Practical wisdom; street smarts.

A device that uses multiple repititions of the same conjunctions (most commonly "and").

A figure that anticipates an opponent's or audience's objections.

A figure in which an abstract thing is personified or an absent person is represented as speaking.

Deliberatively using language to obfuscate.

Taking an opponent's argument to its illogical conclusion.

A benign form of innuendo that implies more than it says.

A figure of ignorance where one uses a grammatical mistake.

A figure that reframes an argument by defining it.

A figure in which a part is made to represent the whole, or vice versa.

Saying the same thing twice but in different words.