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Polanyi's paradox, named in honour of the British-Hungarian philosopher Michael Polanyi, is the theory that human knowledge of how the world functions and of our own capability are, to a large extent, beyond our explicit understanding.
Walter Korpi (20 February 1934 – 19 November 2024) [1] was a Swedish sociologist.. Korpi was a pioneer of power resource theory. [2] Together with the Swedish politician and sociologist Joakim Palme, he wrote the work "The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality", [3] [4] which has some detractors about its principles.
Arthur John Terence Dibben Wisdom (12 September 1904, in Leyton, Essex – 9 December 1993, in Cambridge), [1] usually cited as John Wisdom, was a leading British philosopher considered to be an ordinary language philosopher, a philosopher of mind and a metaphysician.
The first-referenced meaning of the law – "Work expands to fill the available time" – has sprouted several corollaries, the best known being the Stock-Sanford corollary to Parkinson's law: If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do. [2] the Asimov corollary to Parkinson's law:
[1] [2] Diogenes Laërtius, citing Favorinus, says that Zeno's teacher Parmenides was the first to introduce the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise. But in a later passage, Laërtius attributes the origin of the paradox to Zeno, explaining that Favorinus disagrees. [3] Modern academics attribute the paradox to Zeno. [1] [2]
"I have my doubts on whether a dream job ever existed or whether it was just kind of propaganda," says a 25-year-old whose layoff led to content creation. "But now, no one’s buying it."
Michael Huemer (/ ˈ h j uː m ər /; born December 27, 1969) is an American professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. [1] He has defended ethical intuitionism , direct realism , metaphysical libertarianism , phenomenal conservatism , substance dualism , reincarnation , the repugnant conclusion , [ 2 ] and philosophical ...
The company’s recent Work Trends Study, which surveyed 20,000 people across 11 countries, found 87% of employees say they’re more productive remotely or with a mix of in-office and remote work.