I tend to find that the words bias and fallacy are often used as if they were interchangeable. But there is a difference.
Some fallacies are committed intentionally to manipulate, while others are committed unintentionally due to carelessness or ignorance.
With practice, we can learn to recognize and completely avoid mistakes of logic. This is not true of biases.
While faults of logic come from how we think, and thus we can simply change our thinking to be more logical, biases arise from the very cognitive machinery that allows us to think. Behind every cognitive bias is a mental process which is automatic.
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