Apophenia
Apophenia (verbum Graecissans), vel exemplaritas (Anglice patternicity), est inclinatio humana ad inventum exemplarum significantium in sonitu non significanti. Secundum Michaelem Shermer, physicum scriptoremque Americanum qui se scepticum appellat, exemplaritas faciem in Marte, imaginem Mariae Virginis in asso casei pastillo, et nuntios satanicos in musica rock gignit. Ea, una cum agenticitate, "sunt cognitiva shamanismi, paganismi, animismi, polytheismi, monotheismi, et omnium spiritualismi aetatum Veteris et Novae modorum fundamenta." Et secundum Claum Conrad, symptoma schizophreniae esse putatur.

 Iacobus Randi
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Notae

Bibliographia 
 Hood, Bruce. 2009. SuperSense. Novi Eboraci: HarperOne.
 Shermer, Michael. 2002. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time. ISBN 0-8050-7089-3.
 Shermer, Michael. 2008. "Patternicity." Scientific American, Decembri.
 Shermer, Michael. 2009. "Agenticity." Scientific American, Iunio, p. 36. Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World: Scientific American apud www.scientificamerican.com.
 Shermer, Michael. 2010. "Cultivate Your Garden: How a lack of control leads to superstition and what can be done about it." Scientific American, Februario, p. 30.

Nexus externi 
 Michael Shermer, "Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise: Why the brain believes something is real when it is not."

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