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Cognitive Biases
Base rate fallacy – the tendency to ignore available statistical data in favor of particulars.
Books by Jay
Conflict and Conciliation: Faith and Politics in an Age of Global Dissonance
Despite the peaceful foundations of global monotheistic religions, the broad diversity of interpretations can lead to a sharp paradox regarding the use of force. Inevitably, we must ask ourselves: How can those who ascribe to peaceful beliefs suspend their own moral foundation to beat the drums of war? ... read more
Quotes by Utah Phillips
Utah Phillips
Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Nineties - that whole idea of decade packages. Things don't happen that way, that packaging of time is a journalistic convenience that they use to trivialize and to dismiss important events and important ideas.
Utah Phillips
I always thought that anybody who told me I couldn't live in the past was trying to get me to forget something that if I remembered it would get 'em in serious trouble.
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