Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
People are often beguiled by certain mental & linguistic shapes - so if a statement has a kind of symmetry that seems to establish then resolve tension, they feel it must be true.
or to simplify:To the man with a hammer everything looks like a nail.
People are often beguiled by certain mental & linguistic shapes - so if a statement has a kind of symmetry that seems to establish then resolve tension, they feel it must be true.
ReplyDeleteor to simplify:
ReplyDeleteTo the man with a hammer everything looks like a nail.