Cognitive Biases

Famous quotes containing the words cognitive and/or biases:

“Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatist I have so carefully posited ‘reality’ ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.”
—William James (1842–1910)

“A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.”
—Whitney Balliet (b. 1926)