False Assumptions

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False Assumptions

"All generalizations are false, including this one," yet we keep making them. We create images--graven ones that can't be changed; we dismiss or accept people, products, programs, and propaganda according to the labels they come under; we know a little about something, and we treat it as though we know everything.

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