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“Jumping to conclusions on the basis of limited evidence is so important to an understanding of intuitive thinking, and comes up so often in this book that I will use a cumbersome abbreviation for it: WYSIATI, which stands for what you see is all there is. System 1 is radically insensitive to both the quality and the quantity of the information that gives rise to impressions and intuitions.” | “Jumping to conclusions on the basis of limited evidence is so important to an understanding of intuitive thinking, and comes up so often in this book that I will use a cumbersome abbreviation for it: WYSIATI, which stands for what you see is all there is. System 1 is radically insensitive to both the quality and the quantity of the information that gives rise to impressions and intuitions.” | ||
:—Daniel Kahneman, {{br|Thinking, Fast and Slow}} | :—Daniel Kahneman, {{br|Thinking, Fast and Slow}} | ||
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{{quote|TERRY (''Picking a fillet out of the bin''): And if the cat’s one is alright — <br> | |||
POLLY: Which it is — <br> | |||
TERRY: We can give him that, can’t we? <br> | |||
BASIL: Right! <br> | |||
SYBIL: But Terry, it’s got ''things'' all over it! <br> | |||
TERRY (''Flicking things off the fillet''): Oh, that’s alright, Mrs. Fawlty: [[what the eye don’t see, the chef gets away with]]. | |||
:—''Basil the Rat'', Fawlty Towers (1979) | |||
}}{{d|Terry’s law|/ˈtɛriz/ /lɔː/|n|}}What you see is all there is. In the modernist machine, everything you say can, and will, be held against you; everything you ''don’t'' necessarily cannot. Hence the wisdom of keeping your trap shut: ''[[plausible deniability]]''. | }}{{d|Terry’s law|/ˈtɛriz/ /lɔː/|n|}}What you see is all there is. In the modernist machine, everything you say can, and will, be held against you; everything you ''don’t'' necessarily cannot. Hence the wisdom of keeping your trap shut: ''[[plausible deniability]]''. | ||