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The saying "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" [1] was already in use during the 19th century as an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, when it appeared in the Workingman's Advocate : "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the ...
Myth of meritocracy is a phrase arguing that meritocracy, or achieving upward social mobility through one's own merits regardless of one's social position, is not widely attainable in capitalist societies because of inherent contradictions. [1] Meritocracy is argued to be a myth because, despite being promoted as an open and accessible method ...
Publication date. October 1941. " By His Bootstraps " is a 20,000 word science fiction novella by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It plays with some of the inherent paradoxes that would be caused by time travel. The story was published in the October 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction under the pen name Anson MacDonald; the same issue ...
By the 1990s the phrase cropped up repeatedly in English-language publications across the globe. ... or it can allude to the self-reliance of up-by-your-bootstraps mobility.
Temporal paradoxes fall into three broad groups: bootstrap paradoxes, consistency paradoxes, and Newcomb's paradox. [1] Bootstrap paradoxes violate causality by allowing future events to influence the past and cause themselves, or "bootstrapping", which derives from the idiom "pull oneself up by one's bootstraps."
The name Münchhausen-Trilemma was coined by the German philosopher Hans Albert in 1968 in reference to a trilemma of " dogmatism versus infinite regress versus psychologism " used by Karl Popper. [1] It is a reference to the problem of "bootstrapping", based on the story of Baron Munchausen (in German, "Münchhausen") pulling himself and the ...
Chris Green, who leads the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center at Berea College, said people were drawn to “Hillbilly Elegy,” because of its quintessential “pull yourself up by your bootstraps ...
When looking at the causal and multigenerational effects of poverty on mental health, it becomes clear that effecting real change requires more than simply telling people to "toughen up" or "pull ...