[Linkpost]Frame Error

"Frame errors"—mistakes distinct from logical fallacies or factual inaccuracy. A LessWrong post published today argues that you can have every fact correct, every logical step valid, and still be profoundly wrong. The culprit isn't flawed reasoning or bad data—it's an inadequate framework. Your entire lens for understanding the problem is broken. Linch, the author, catalogs five common frame-error classes with examples. The underlying idea isn't novel; rationality communities have spotted such errors piecemeal before. What's useful here is the unified concept and the tools to spot it: a systematic way to recognize when you're not just reasoning poorly, but reasoning about the wrong thing. Think of it as epistemology's missing piece—a reminder that good thinking needs both sound logic and the right conceptual foundation.

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