"I have an idea for a story, and I think to myself, my God, this is a combination of Eugene O'Neill, and Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller … but that's because [when you're writing] you don't have to face the test of reality.
Sadly, what is never different is the extraordinary vulnerability of economic prediction to long tail events and the always humbling test of reality.
It is bound to fail when confronted with the stern test of reality.
This assertion cannot withstand the test of reality, as can be witnessed by anyone who has regularly visited the West Bank over the last decade.
But rarely do we put our theories to the test of reality -- instead deliriously repeating them over and over again as though they were some sort of sacred dogma, to be believed regardless of the facts on the ground.
He recalls seeing Thatcher on television saying, "We are a grandmother," and thinking: "That's it, then... ...... "One of my recurring tests of political reality and of political fantasy is when hubris penetrates not just leaders but an entire organisation," he explains.
If you haven't heard, Google today announced it is beginning public tests of augmented reality glasses with the codename Project Glass.
It's a whole other ball game to do it in the testing ground of reality.
Intentional realists, however, will not easily concede the epiphenomenalism of intentionality, since for them, a test of the reality of a property is that it can be causally efficacious.
In any event, although still lacking a test of the reality of the limits and scope of the new provisions, there are some suggestions that the government will maintain a filter for professionals and critics of the system.
