*voca dissolution - 해산(법적으로 계약,조약 같은 것을 끝내다), 이혼 = dissolution of marriage bodega - small spanish stroe plop down - 재빨리 자리에 앉다, 돈을 쓰다 plop - to fall Choice - 선택에 관하여 경제학적 관점에서 Adam Smith는 인간은 이성적인 판단을 한다고 했다. 하지만 그는 틀렸다. 때론 인간은 정말 단순계산적으로 보면 더 손해인 선택을 강행하는 편이 많기 때문이다. 이는 우리가 relative value를 기반으로 판단하기에 일어나는 kluge의 일종이다. 예를 들어보겠다. Would you go to a neighboring town to save $25 on a $100 speaker? G..
*voca seances - 강령회, a session for reaching out to souls(usually done in a round table) omniscient - 전지, 전능 syllogism - 삼단논법 *We tend to believe that hard work will be rewarded, it's a belief we have in this world. However, is it true? Hardwork itself won't pay off but hardwork surely is a regimen for success. It's one of properties or traits for success. It's preperation for opportunities, so w..
*voca insidious - 교활한, 사악한 squabble - 실랑이하다 predilection - 선호, 편향 heuristic - 직관과 시행착오를 바탕으로 하는 빠른 판단. Belief: 신념, 믿음 Our beliefs have to get filtered through contextual memory first. That is why they are also very clumsy and kluge. With such minor alternations and tendencies, people's opinion/guess/memory can be effected greatly. Even if the information exposed is not related at all. = known as..
*voca extrapolate - to predict by using past experiences. expunge - 지우다 repress - 억압 congenital - inherited, 타고난, 유전 founder - to sink, fall vestibule - 현관 mnemonist - 니모니스트, 기억전문가 hexameter - 6보격, 주로 시에서 쓰임 inundate - Memory Human memory is rather a contextual, cognitive and situational memory which needs cues to provoke unlike computers which use postal-code memory-like storing something in a ..