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Schulz, Kathryn.
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Fallibility.
Errors.
Decision making -- Psychological aspects.
Philosophical anthropology.
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Being wrong : advent...
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Being wrong : adventures in the margin of error / Kathryn Schulz.
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Schulz, Kathryn.
New York : Ecco, c2010.
Subjects
Fallibility.
Errors.
Decision making -- Psychological aspects.
Philosophical anthropology.
ISBN:
9780061176043 :
Description:
viii, 405 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Pt. I. The idea of error. Wrongology -- Two models of wrongness -- pt. II. The origins of error. Our senses -- Our minds, part one : knowing, not knowing, and making it up -- Our minds, part two : belief -- Our minds, part three : evidence -- Our society -- The allure of certainty -- pt. III. The experience of error. Being wrong -- How wrong? -- Denial and acceptance -- Heartbreak -- Transformation -- pt. IV. Embracing error. The paradox of error -- The optimistic meta-induction from the history of everything.
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Journalist "explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken, and how this attitude toward error corrodes relationships." She claims that "error is both a given and a gift--one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and, most profoundly, ourselves."
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Ewa Beach P/S Library
Adult Nonfiction
128 Sc
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03/19/2014
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128 Sc
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