Another fallacy in writing
In a previous post I had already identified my mistake that instead of setting an explicit scope for a text I rather tried to include every idea I had. Which in turn lead to constantly trying to incorporate new ideas into a text and thus never actually finishing it.
Now I realized the reason I was doing this: I did not want to make mistakes in my arguments. I did not want to publish a text where I could have possibly overlooked something.
Even though I DO not want to overlook something, desperately trying to avoid mistakes is more detrimental than it actually does good. Even though my arguments DID become better, also nobody had the chance to read them.