I don’t want to do without the concept. I agree that it is abused, but I would simply contest whether those cases are actually self-fulfilling. So maybe what I would point to, as the bad concept, would be the idea that most beliefs are self-fulfilling. However, in my experience, this is not common enough that I would label it “common sense”. Although it certainly seems to be something like a human mental predisposition (perhaps due to confirmation bias, or perhaps due to a confusion of cause and effect, since by design, most beliefs are true).
You’re right. As romeostevensit pointed out, “commonsense ideas rarely include information about the domain of applicability.” My issue with self-fulfilling prophecy is that it gets misapplied, but I don’t think it is an irretrievably bad idea.
This insightful verse from the Tao Te Ching is an exemplary application of the self-fulfilling prophecy:
If you don’t trust the people, you make them untrustworthy.
I don’t want to do without the concept. I agree that it is abused, but I would simply contest whether those cases are actually self-fulfilling. So maybe what I would point to, as the bad concept, would be the idea that most beliefs are self-fulfilling. However, in my experience, this is not common enough that I would label it “common sense”. Although it certainly seems to be something like a human mental predisposition (perhaps due to confirmation bias, or perhaps due to a confusion of cause and effect, since by design, most beliefs are true).
You’re right. As romeostevensit pointed out, “commonsense ideas rarely include information about the domain of applicability.” My issue with self-fulfilling prophecy is that it gets misapplied, but I don’t think it is an irretrievably bad idea.
This insightful verse from the Tao Te Ching is an exemplary application of the self-fulfilling prophecy:
It explicitly states a feedback loop.
You can add it to Self Fulfilling/Refuting Prophecies as an example