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e. Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and theologian. [1] This argument posits that individuals essentially engage in a life-defining gamble regarding the belief in the existence of God. Pascal contends that a rational person ...
BF611 .S38 2004. The Paradox of Choice – Why More Is Less is a book written by American psychologist Barry Schwartz and first published in 2004 by Harper Perennial. In the book, Schwartz argues that eliminating consumer choices can greatly reduce anxiety for shoppers. The book analyses the behavior of different types of people (in particular ...
Originated among Black people to refer to an unreasonable White woman. The term became popular on Black Twitter as a meme used to describe White women who "tattle on Black kids' lemonade stands." These days often used by people of all races. "Okay, stop being a Karen." Karen haircut/cut [78] [79] [80] [81]
A brief history of automotive right to repair laws. The early 2000s saw the first stirrings of right to repair activism in the U.S. automotive industry.
The idea originated through my wife [Kijafa Vick, also an executive producer on the project] always witnessing people coming up to me and saying that I changed the game, I revolutionized the position.
Today’s Silicon Valley moguls have more “chutzpah”: “They’ve been convinced that they’re gods.” One notable exception from history is the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst ...
The paradox of tolerance states that if a society 's practice of tolerance is inclusive of the intolerant, intolerance will ultimately dominate, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them. Karl Popper describes the paradox as arising from the fact that, in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the ...
The final case, where one engages in the addictive behavior today while abstaining tomorrow, has the problem that (as in other prisoner's dilemmas) there is an obvious benefit to defecting "today", but tomorrow one will face the same prisoner's dilemma, and the same obvious benefit will be present then, ultimately leading to an endless string ...