人敍述事情時，總喜歡為事情加上一個解釋。例如：「今天股市下挫，是因為中東某國出現財政危機。」或：「Ａ君被解僱，是因為他與上司不合。」請看著名的心理學大師 B. F. Skinner如何批評這...

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When I was in the employment of the New York Office of a large investment house, I was subjected on occasions to the harrying weekly "discussion meeting", which gather...

Whenever Sherlock Holmes solves a case in a Conan Doyle book, the suspect always seems to get killed trying to escape or else confesses to everything, handily supplying all the ...

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不少古今中外的哲學家都認為，人是理性的動物。可是人真是那麼理性嗎？請聽前墨爾本大學哲學教授 Tim van Gelder 怎麼說 [1, p.1]：Surprise quiz: Why, except during a full moon, is part...

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有個日本人告訴一個猶太拉比，他想學習猶太經典《塔木德》。拉比便考考他，看他有沒有資格。拉比問日本人：「有兩個孩子一起在壙坑裡工作了一整天。他們工作完出來時，一個去了洗臉，一個沒...