Elliott Sober Quotes
If you have evidence that C1 is a cause of E, and no evidence as to whether C2 is also a cause of E, then C1 seems to be a better explanation of E than C1&C2 is, since C1 is more parsimonious. I call the version of Ockham's razor used here "the razor of silence." The better explanation of E is silent about C2; it does not deny that C2 was a cause. The problem changes if you consider two conjunctive hypotheses.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.
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I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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Bring together what is good for business with what is good for the world.
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As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.
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I love knowing exactly what you're putting onto your skin and about the ingredient benefits of those products.
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Cyber weapons won't go away, and their spread can't be controlled. Instead, as we've done for other destructive technologies, the world needs to establish a set of principles to determine the proper conduct of governments regarding cyber conflict.
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I always go for the underdog or the rogue or the rebel.
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Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
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Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
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Name a country, and I have probably been there.
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I am a rune a carrot a little joke
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The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
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It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.
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Americans fear losing control if they're forced to ride in autonomous vehicles. These same Americans fly in airplanes every day that largely are flown by computers, and impressively efficient ones at that.
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If you have evidence that C1 is a cause of E, and no evidence as to whether C2 is also a cause of E, then C1 seems to be a better explanation of E than C1&C2 is, since C1 is more parsimonious. I call the version of Ockham's razor used here "the razor of silence." The better explanation of E is silent about C2; it does not deny that C2 was a cause. The problem changes if you consider two conjunctive hypotheses.
