Comments on: Obvious/Oblivious

By: ytf

ytf — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 21:39:59 +0000

Along with “obvious” and “common sense”, we need to mention the utterance “it goes without saying”–which phrase I have always enjoyed because it *makes explicit* the silence, and then claims to end it.

Even then, the potential cognitive slip is, of course, that other things remain which might have also gone without saying.

By: Adrian Howard

Adrian Howard — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:34:05 +0000

Another translation of “obvious” is “I can’t articulate that”.

One of the things I find hardest is extracting why one particular solution is “obvious” to an expert practitioner. The “obvious” solution is correct, it’s just that the process that led to it is no longer open to introspection (if it ever was) in the experts head.

(and gosh darn it I really hate “common sense” too

By: Dale Emery

Dale Emery — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:06:06 +0000

Here’s how I translate “obvious”: Not obvious, and very likely not true.

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