-
Personality Plus
opines that
pessimistic temperaments (e.g.,
melancholy and phlegmatic) can be
useful inasmuch as
pessimists'
focus on the
negative helps...
- In the
philosophy of science, the
pessimistic induction, also
known as the
pessimistic meta-induction, is an
argument which s****s to
rebut scientific realism...
-
Philosophical pessimism is a
philosophical school critical of existence.
Pessimistic sentiments can be
found throughout religions and in the
works of various...
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quantity Q, one uses an
appropriately tight bound called a
pessimistic estimator. The
pessimistic estimator is a
function of the
current state. It should...
- such
events affect many
aspects of
their lives display what is
called a
pessimistic explanatory style. Conversely,
people who
generally tend to
blame outside...
- "A
Pessimist Is
Never Disappointed" is an indie-rock song
written by
Billy Reeves for Theaudience's
eponymous album Theaudience,
released as the third...
- The
philosophical term
incompatibilism was
coined in the 1960s, most
likely by
philosopher Keith Lehrer, to name the view that the
thesis of determinism...
- Winnie-the-Pooh
books by A. A. Milne. He is
generally characterized as a
pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, anhedonic, old grey
stuffed donkey who is a friend...
-
pessimistic and
optimistic outlook on a
specific situation or on the
world at large. "Half full"
means optimistic and "half empty"
means pessimistic....
- Cromwell's rule,
named by
statistician Dennis Lindley,
states that the use of
prior probabilities of 1 ("the
event will
definitely occur") or 0 ("the event...