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WIST Quotations Has Moved!A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Part 1, ch. 1 “The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic” (2007)
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Physiognomy,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
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"Physiognomy," The Devil's Dictionary (1911) - Bierce, Ambrose | WIST Quotations
PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence. Originally published in the "Cynic's Word Book" column in the New York American (1905-01-11) and the "Cynic's Dictionary" column in the San Francisco…
A quotation from Robert Benchley
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.Robert Benchley (1889-1945) American humorist, columnist, actor, wit
Of All Things, ch. 20 “The Most Popular Book of the Month” (1921)
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A quotation from Nicholas Taleb
We humans, facing limits of knowledge, and things we do not observe, the unseen and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas, reductive categories, specific vocabularies, and prepackaged narratives, which, on the occasion, has explosive consequences.Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, Introduction (2010)
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Because our minds need to reduce information, we are more likely to try to squeeze a phenomenon into the Procrustean bed of a crisp and known category (amputating the unknown), rather than suspend categorization, and make it tangible. Thanks to our detections of false patterns, along with real ones, what is random will appear less random and more certain — our overactive brains are more likely to impose the wrong, simplistic, narrative than no narrative at all.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, “Postface” (2010)
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Who Let The Dogs Out 🐾Jenny's 20 Den comics quadrant
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[The New Yorker]
LAWFUL GOOD
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[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]
NEUTRAL GOOD
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[Альфина]
CHAOTIC GOOD
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[The Bus by Paul Kirschner]
LAWFUL NEUTRAL
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[Garfield]
TRUE NEUTRAL
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[xkcd]
CHAOTIC NEUTRAL
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[Jenny's 20 Den]
LAWFUL EVIL
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[Дюран]
NEUTRAL EVIL
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[Cyanide & Happiness]
CHAOTIC EVIL
Dan 🦺 DeboerThe "is a hotdog a sandwich" question is fascinating to me, not because it doesn't have an obvious answer (it does: "fuck no, why would you ask such a stupid question"), but because once you ask folks to justify why or why not, they start producing these bizarre taxonomies based on the features of a sandwich, trying to discover what sandwichness truly means.
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