A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern …

" Self-Reliance " is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of his recurrent themes: the need for …

False consistency lets the moment go by when it would have been helpful to face up to a problem. T.S. Eliot called it “obnubilation, [that is] reconciling, hushing up, patting down, glozing over, …

Simply conforming to external expectations or foolishly pursuing what we know is a mistake because such false consistency cuts us off from our potential and from opportunities before …

Mar 27, 2016 · The False Consistency error is committed when someone has conflicting desires, thoughts, or beliefs, and bludgeons all but one of them into silence, in the name of "consistency."

"False" is another way of saying "inconsistent with the facts." ry, anti-Semitism, anti-racism. This is wh t drives me . . . ." A slip-up. If you are for anti-Semitism, then you must be for bigotr , so …

If two sentences are contradictory, then one must be true and one must be false, but if they are inconsistent, then both could be false. Do the following two statements contradict each other?

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past …

False consistency where we think that a persons actions or speech would be more consistent than it actually is. An example of this would be meeting someone for the first time and …

Logic is about the relations among the truth values of sentences that can express beliefs. Such sentences, sometimes called "declarative sentences" are of the kind that must be either true or …