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  2. Failure of imagination - Wikipedia

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    Failure of imagination is a phrase applied to an undesirable yet seemingly predictable circumstance—predictable particularly in hindsight—that occurs unanticipated. [ citation needed ] It is distinguishable from a " black swan event ", which by definition defies prediction.

  3. Polanyi's paradox - Wikipedia

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    Since tacit knowledge cannot be stated in propositional or formal form, Polanyi concludes such inability in articulation in the slogan ‘We can know more than we can tell’. [2] Daily activities based on tacit knowledge include recognizing a face, driving a car, riding a bike, writing a persuasive paragraph, developing a hypothesis to explain ...

  4. Icarus paradox - Wikipedia

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    The Icarus paradox is a neologism coined by Danny Miller in his 1990 book by the same name. [1] The term refers to the phenomenon of businesses failing abruptly after a period of apparent success, where this failure is brought about by the very elements that led to their initial success.

  5. Knowledge can be profoundly sad, but I need to believe ... - AOL

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  6. Clarke's three laws - Wikipedia

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    One account stated that Clarke's laws were developed after the editor of his works in French started numbering the author's assertions. [2] All three laws appear in Clarke's essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", first published in Profiles of the Future (1962); [3] however, they were not all published at the same time.

  7. Problem of induction - Wikipedia

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    For example, one might argue that it is valid to use inductive inference in the future because this type of reasoning has yielded accurate results in the past. However, this argument relies on an inductive premise itself—that past observations of induction being valid will mean that future observations of induction will also be valid.

  8. Stumbling on Happiness - Wikipedia

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    The Publishers Weekly: “a scientific explanation of the limitations of the human imagination and how it steers us wrong in our search for happiness, … commonplace examples render a potentially academic topic accessible and educational, even if his approach is at times overly prescriptive.” [8]

  9. 7 epic failures for Mark Cuban — and 7 lessons for you - AOL

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    Cuban is an example of how even the richest and most famous people in the world fail. But his story shows that the right response to failure can lead to success. A disastrous 2020 might have left ...