Anthropic Fallacy
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The Anthropic Fallacy is one of the three competing theories in the Existential Triangle along with the People as Scenery theory and Existential Angst.
The basic premise of the theory is "I think, therefore I am the best".
[edit] Origins
Discovery of the theory is credited to Rupert Scopwick (1200-1835), famed swordsman, condimentier and philosopher. This theory's location on the Existential Triangle acknowledges the utter and irrefutable reality of the self but suggests that reality it not necessarily a given for the other seeming constructs of the thinker's apparent "world". As this idea originated before computer-generated imagery and hallucinogenic compounds became freely available the current philosophical paradigm nurtured the opinion that real things were somehow better than unreal things. The Anthropic Fallacy's bias towards the real individual rather than the doubtful environment was thus inherent within the theory from the beginning.
[edit] Development
Although now known to philosophers across the world as the Anthropic Fallacy this theory was originally developed under the working title "Scopwick's Hypothesis of Personal Superiority". It was renamed as a Fallacy when its discoverer lost a game of chess to a colleague, proving that he at least was wrong in thinking himself superior. His campaign to retain "Scopwick" within the theory's title was abruptly aborted when a small Lincolnshire village of the same name successfully sued the philosopher for copyright infringement.
