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Fallacies Quotes by Steven Pinker
- In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology,…
- It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.
- Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid…
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- If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis D. Brandeis
- We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled… — Samuel Johnson
- As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. — Ludwig von Mises
- The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some… — Hermann Kolbe
- In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in… — Steven Pinker
- Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence… — Sir John Richard Hicks
- All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second… — Morris Raphael Cohen
- The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist… — Howard Lyman