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Do not let the bastards grind you down; Do not let the grass grow beneath (one's) feet; Do not look a gift horse in the mouth; Do not make a mountain out of a mole hill; Do not meet troubles half-way; 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 ...
"Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist." [7] [b] The aphorism "No news is good news". [8] The usefulness of this as a heuristic may vary by context. Carl Sagan explains in his book The Demon-Haunted World:
Solipsism (/ ˈ s ɒ l ɪ p s ɪ z əm / ⓘ SOLL-ip-siz-əm; from Latin solus 'alone' and ipse 'self') [1] is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.
“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” — Booker T. Washington “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Logic depends upon this dream, for the waning of the dream results in the confusion of counsel. Today many think that it does not matter what a man believes, but it does. What a man believes tells him what the world is for. If people can’t agree what the world is for, they can never agree on all the little things in life either.
Image credits: Wichella #8. Can only remember a moment in personal history. I was the last generation in my country to do mandatory military service. And apparently my generation is particularly lazy.
Philosopher and psychoanalyst Emilio Mordini argued that the "nothing to hide" argument is inherently paradoxical, because people do not need to have "something to hide" in order to be hiding "something". Mordini makes the point that the content of what is hidden is not necessarily relevant; instead, he argues that it is necessary to have an ...
This will probably not be an option in most cases. The second, and most likely, option is to find a source demonstrating the opposite, your belief, or demonstrating that people hold that belief. In regards to content and sources, the least effective thing one can do is to simply assert over and over, "X is/isn't true," or "X is/isn't a reliable ...