Yesterday I discovered I had been a victim of the Mind Projection Fallacy thanks to accidentally finding out that someone very close to me doesn’t have an internal monologue, doesn’t think in words and has a visual photographic memory.
I don’t think this is the Mind Projection Fallacy. The Mind Projection Fallacy happens when you take properties of your own mind and project them out onto the external world.
Like how in the OP, beauty is a property of your own mind, you perceive someone as beautiful. They don’t possess the property of beauty. But the fallacy occurs when you take that thing in your mind (beauty) and project it out into the external world, assuming it is a property of the woman.
Here, having an internal monologue isn’t a property of your own mind in the same way that something like beauty is, so I don’t think it is the Mind Projection Fallacy that is occurring.
(I know this is a little tangential to the main point of this post, but it still seems worth mentioning.)
I don’t think this is the Mind Projection Fallacy. The Mind Projection Fallacy happens when you take properties of your own mind and project them out onto the external world.
Like how in the OP, beauty is a property of your own mind, you perceive someone as beautiful. They don’t possess the property of beauty. But the fallacy occurs when you take that thing in your mind (beauty) and project it out into the external world, assuming it is a property of the woman.
Here, having an internal monologue isn’t a property of your own mind in the same way that something like beauty is, so I don’t think it is the Mind Projection Fallacy that is occurring.
(I know this is a little tangential to the main point of this post, but it still seems worth mentioning.)
It’s the Typical Mind Fallacy. See e.g. Generalizing From One Example, which is actually about this very topic (diversity of internal sensory experiences).
Right! I couldn’t remember the term Typical Mind Fallacy and was searching around looking for it, but couldn’t find it. Thanks.
I have corrected the post, thanks :)