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When in doubt, check whether the word in question can logically be expanded to "you are". Standard: When driving, always wear your seatbelt. Standard: If you're going out, please be home by ten o'clock. Non-standard: You also can't use 4G or LTE if you're Android phone doesn't support Bluetooth tethering. [147]
Use these in articles only when they are in wide use externally, e.g. Gamergate (harassment campaign), with in-text attribution if in doubt. Rather than describing an individual using the subjective and vague term controversial , instead give readers information about relevant controversies.
Be suspicious of everything / doubt everything: Attributed to the French philosopher René Descartes. It was also Karl Marx's favorite motto and a title of one of Søren Kierkegaard's works, namely, De Omnibus Dubitandum Est. de oppresso liber: free from having been oppressed: Loosely, "to liberate the oppressed".
"When in doubt, throw it out" is a rule for a reason, New York-based food writer Alice Knisley Matthias told Fox News Digital. Trust your instinct, she said, because "the nose knows."
Definitional retreat – changing the meaning of a word when an objection is raised. [23] Often paired with moving the goalposts (see below), as when an argument is challenged using a common definition of a term in the argument, and the arguer presents a different definition of the term and thereby demands different evidence to debunk the argument.
Do not put all your eggs in one basket; Do not put the cart before the horse; Do not put too many irons in the fire; Do not put new wine into old bottles; Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today; Do not rock the boat; Do not shut/lock the stable door after the horse has bolted; Do not spend it all in one place
Gwen Stefani. When it comes to certain songs Gwen Stefani has written, she rather people don't speak about them.. During a recent interview with Audacy Check-In, the 54-year-old award-winning ...
The notion was used as part of his hyperbolic doubt, wherein one decides to doubt everything there is to doubt. The Deus deceptor is a mainstay of so-called skeptical arguments, which purport to put into question our knowledge of reality. The punch of the argument is that all we know might be wrong, since we might be deceived.