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by iliveinberlin 46 days ago
parables that didn't happen can still be useful
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bux93 46 days ago
The parable-replication crisis is real though
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bluGill 46 days ago
They can be, but you need to take care as sometimes they are misleading and can even drive wrong decisions.
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fhdkweig 46 days ago
Aesop wrote a lot of fables that had contradictory lessons.
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bluGill 46 days ago
I have more than once in life realized that one of the two contradictory lessons was correct for this situation, but in a different one the other was correct...
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HPsquared 46 days ago
There's a meta-lesson there.
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