"We have to admit we know less about things than we thought we did," said Martin Regalia, chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Nevertheless, the "we" that knows less than they thought they did still assumes they know more than the them who never presumed to know so much. There is a fixed amount of hubris.
is this the "lump of hubris" fallacy?
Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
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