{"id":2407,"date":"2021-10-07T04:42:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T04:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/fake-it-and-make-it\/"},"modified":"2021-10-07T04:42:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T04:42:52","slug":"fake-it-and-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/fake-it-and-make-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake it and Make it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.3333px;\">&#0160;When we started out, did we know what we were doing? We do now.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.3333px;\">A bit of posturing and pretense may be needed to launch a life. Posture and pretense become performance. The untested ideal becomes the verified real. At the start of a life scant is the evidence that you can do what you dream: you must believe beyond the evidence if you are to have a shot.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.3333px;\">And so I beg to differ with W. K. Clifford:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.3333px;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0282e1272fde200b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clifford insuff evidence\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0282e1272fde200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0282e1272fde200b-500wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Clifford insuff evidence\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.3333px;\">For a couple of rather more technical treatments, see <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher_stri\/clifford-w-k\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;When we started out, did we know what we were doing? We do now. A bit of posturing and pretense may be needed to launch a life. Posture and pretense become performance. The untested ideal becomes the verified real. At the start of a life scant is the evidence that you can do what you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/fake-it-and-make-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fake it and Make it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406,372,248,249,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-life","category-belief","category-ethics-of-belief","category-evidence","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}