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#assumption

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One’s opinion should only be as strong as one’s knowledge on the matter.


Eric Hirzel


#close-mindedness #intelligence #knowledge #open-mindedness #opinions

The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.


Eric Hirzel


#close-mindedness #intelligence #knowledge #open-mindedness #opinions

We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.


E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh


#consciousness #life #life

Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You couldn't expect life---which is fundamentally dependent on light---to develop under such extreme conditions of light deprivation. Half of every axial rotation spent in Darkness! No, nothing could exist under conditions like that.


Isaac Asimov


#life

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).


Randy Alcorn


#bonus #christianity #corinthians #excess #giving

[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. [...] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved the attempt to reconstruct or recover the lost ideal of an art that is integrated with, rather than alienated from, the social. By and large, however, the dominant model of avant-garde art during the modern period assumes that shared or collective values and systems of meaning are necessarily repressive and incapable of generating new insight or grounding creative praxis.


Grant H. Kester


#art-history #assumptions #avant-garde #fallacy #meaning

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.


Abraham Harold Maslow


#instrumentalism #problem-solving #problems

A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.


Harry Browne


#assumption #challenged #competent #counsel #courtroom

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.


Warren Buffett


#attempt #buy #close #could #day

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.


Evan Davis


#assume #assumption #behaviour #behavioural #deviate






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