> You can be wrong without being a strawman. Sometimes yes, but not always. > but if every example you have of X is Y Is that actually true though? Are you n

> You can be wrong without being a strawman. Sometimes yes, but not always. > but if every example you have of X is Y Is that actually true though? Are you not assuming perfect rationality on behalf of the poster, and that they have an adequate sample size, which tends to be subject to who the individual associates with. > it's not a "strawman" to say "all X are Y" That depends on the truth of the matter. >when you're wrong, it's a black swan. Only if the initial guess was correct. You may be describing appearances. That which cannot be seen does in fact exist, it just doesn't seem like it because it exists in a different realm, and how our culture is trained to think about such problems spaces.