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	<title>MIND READERS DICTIONARY &#187; induction</title>
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		<title>Generalizing: Learn the lessons of history, but which ones?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-do-better/is-there-something-to-learn-here/generalizing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generalizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[induction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lessons of history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overgeneralizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=1136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months before Katrina, I caught one of the early Mardi Gras parades in a rural town outside New Orleans. Race relations there seemed different from those here in Northern California. Blacks were more outgoing and friendly to whites, and yet there also seemed to be more racial segregation. At the parade, the floats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turing&#8217;s Blurring Anxiety (TBA): Forgiving dead jerks but not live ones.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/turings-blurring-anxiety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How can I communicate this to her?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How should I handle it with my friend?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What should we do about this family issue?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[closed sets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deduction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[open sets]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[serenity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=952</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you say about a deceased jerk, someone who treated you badly before shuffling off this mortal coil?The natural temptation is to say, &#8220;She could have done better,&#8221; but what could that mean? That had she tried a little harder, she would have been able to control her vices? Meaning if she had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guesswork: Enough is enough, but how much is enough?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/guesswork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[What should I do about this business problem?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Which move helps my career?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambiguity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can I get resolution on this?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fallibalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=951</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three weeks ago I recounted a lot of tough problems raised over the ages about how cause and effect really work. One of the toughest was that if cause and effect works like we normally think it does-thing A bumps into thing B and moves it in a precisely predictable direction, then the whole universe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deduction: The dream and nightmare of absolute certainty him in a</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/deduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How can I communicate this to her?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambiguity tolerance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[destiny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free will]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[induction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paradoxes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the free willies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tough choices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trial and error]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=950</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I began comparing and contrasting computers and minds, examining both human intuitions and appetites regarding the prospect that our minds are governed by the same kind of direct one-to-one-correspondence kind of cause-and-effect we see in the physical world (Aristotle&#8217;s efficient cause). If minds are really like computers, just translating information from one form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Free Willies: Are computers like humans? Are humans like computers?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/the-free-willies-are-computers-like-humans-are-humans-like-computers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Am I missing the forest for trees?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambiguity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can I get resolution on this?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[determinism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/?p=949</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The World Wide Web, it&#8217;s like a giant human mind the way it processes billions of pieces of information. Someday it will become so smart it takes over the world. It will be able to think instead of us. Or so some cognitive scientists say. Your new computer too, it thinks so fast. The better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breakthrough Baggage: How a winning formula becomes a strange brew</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-do-better/is-there-something-to-learn-here/breakthrough-baggage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-do-better/is-there-something-to-learn-here/breakthrough-baggage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 21:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Is this a sign?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enlightenment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[induction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[package deals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhetoric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiritual quest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What's the spiritual thing to do?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=15</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It changed my life&#8221; Your friend had been up against a wall until she discovered this spiritual program that helped her break through it. She was impressed&#8211;so impressed she subscribed to the whole program: the rituals, the grand assumptions, the preposterous theories. Never mind how irrelevant they were to her breakthrough. Never mind how many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OK Corral: Words like arrows pointing the way to OK</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/ok-corral/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-change-him/communication/ok-corral/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Can I change him?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can I do better?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can I trust them?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Is there a win/win solution?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this a sign?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth fighting for?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is this worth wondering about?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I commit?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I expect less from them?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I expect more from them?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I get over it?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I hold onto my dream or face reality?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Should I take what he said to heart?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abduction]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=92</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an old debate in philosophy about what regular nouns represent. Proper nouns are easy by comparison, since they&#8217;re labels for particular things. Look for Jeremy Sherman in the real world and you can always point to me. But what about a regular noun like horse. Try to point to horse, and all you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lax, Axe, and Ox: The gods of creation revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/can-i-trust-them/negotiation/lax-axe-and-ox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[axe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bake-off]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Darwin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donald Campbell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[evolutionary epistemology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were creating a universe, how would you go about it? Chances are, you’d do it the way you create anything. You would do a little planning then just create it to your specs. So of course, that’s how people tend to think God did it—just thought it up and created it. But is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Two and Two Together: Logic in one easy lesson</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/putting-two-and-two-together/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What should I do?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abduction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Information theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peirce]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we connect two ideas why do we say put two and two together? Why not one and one? &#8216;Two and two&#8217; is not an accidental turn of phrase. It&#8217;s an accurate count: the smallest number of units involved in learning anything. Pavlov&#8217;s classical conditioning is learning at its most basic. Pavlov&#8217;s dog learned that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logic of Affirmation: All of logic in one easy lesson</title>
		<link>http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/what-should-i-do/logic-of-affirmation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 21:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sherman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[affirmation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aristotle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Certainty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feeling of being right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[induction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peirce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robert burton]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindreadersdictionary.com/blog/?p=70</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I argued that our pursuit of love from the world is best understood as the pursuit of affirmation, not limited to self-affirmation, but broadened to include all evidence we can interpret as confirming the bets we live out. To get at what I mean I&#8217;m going to dip into what to me is [...]]]></description>
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