I work in a field where public safety is paramount. If someone in my profession tells me they have a great new idea for a bridge design, I'm going to consider it a bad idea until it is proven otherwise. I'm not sure why that approach to business -- and life in general -- would be a problem for anyone.
Caution and skepticism are not classical fallacies.
***a priori reasoning IS a classical fallacy and you upheld it as if it were sound reasoning.
I work in a field where public safety is paramount.
***Then learn to avoid classic fallacies.
If someone in my profession tells me they have a great new idea for a bridge design,
***That would be the difference between DEDUCTIVE reasoning and INDUCTIVE reasoning. I have noticed that engineers have this tendency to misapply deductive principles upon inductive realms.
I’m going to consider it a bad idea until it is proven otherwise.
***I’ll just consider everything you say to be a bad idea until it is proven otherwise. You don’t even know the difference between inductive reasoning and deductive.
I’m not sure why that approach to business — and life in general — would be a problem for anyone.
***Because it tosses good ideas. You don’t know how to use inductive reasoning. People like you are just bypassed in industries, and you don’t even know it. That’s how guys like Elon Musk are building space ships while you’re designing a pedal-powered 2-wheel transportation device with bells & whistles.