Daniel Dennett coined the term “intuition pump” for this, which is a great concept to keep in mind so you don’t get caught by one. Wikipedia: An argument “desig

Daniel Dennett coined the term “intuition pump” for this, which is a great concept to keep in mind so you don’t get caught by one. Wikipedia: An argument “designed to elicit intuitive but incorrect answers by formulating the description in such a way that important implications of the experiment would be difficult to imagine and tend to be ignored.”