What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?

Matt Weston, 6 Feb

At the turn of each year, philosophical discussion group Edge puts a question to its membership. I’m thirteen months late answering this one, from 2004/5, but below is an a-j of factoids that I hold to be true, but can’t prove.

[a] You are what you think
[b] Google isn’t evil
[c] HR is dead. PR is next
[d] Delete is the most underused key on your keyboard
[e] Strangers are more likely to tell you the truth than friends
[f] Snap decisions, on average, beat considered decisions
[g] Mastery of slang is more useful than mastery of grammar
[h] Nothing is more powerful than information
[i] If you look out for numbers two to ten, you’ll live longer than if you look out for number one
[j] Most of all, I believe breakfast is the most important meal of the day

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Iain Row says:
[k] What goes around, comes around.
by Iain Row on 6 Feb

Kev says:
I would say that:
[g] Mastery of slang is more useful than mastery of grammar
is incredibly context-dependent, and very rarely holds true in written English (I dare you to write a letter applying for a job showing off both your mastery of slang and your contempt for traditional grammar).
Plus I fear:
[f] Snap decisions, on average, beat considered decisions
owes more to your Gladwell worship than you would like to admit (and I also reckon that you have thought deeply on your decision about whether to believe the arguments advanced in ‘Blink’, therefore in a rapier-elegant meta-argumentative riposte skewering your own argument even as you make it).
by Kev on 7 Feb

Allan says:
[l] The most successful consultants are those with the ability to describe every problem in a 2 x 2 box matrix diagram.
by Allan on 7 Feb