Paul Diesing: "The most serious deficiency of implicit formal theories is that the verbal language disguises the abstractness of the theory … The consequence of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness is that the theory looks too convincing to its proponents … He becomes the prisoner of his own logical model and is rendered incapable of seeing reality from any other standpoint …"Mistaking a map for the territory.
Classic error.
Virtually everyone makes it by mistaking their map (worldview) for the territory (reality). Even so-called experts in cognitive disciplines often make it.
