"Your being here this evening confirms your right to form and communicate an autonomous judgment to determine why you think something is true or not.
I apply a standard of proof and if I don't think something is true on a balance of probabilities, I'm not putting it in the book, however appealing it is.
"Every company starts with a group of entrepreneurs who think something is true but it disagrees with what everyone else thinks," said Beepi founder Alejandro Resnik in a phone interview.
Ask yourself, why do I think something is true or false?
The most obvious is the version where people think that if they believe something is true long enough, the universe will reward them.
"Such fears cannot be completely discounted and if the 29-year-olds in London who rule the world think that something is true, for a few hours or days it is," he writes.It is certainly true that if Japan were to create modest inflation, and the yen were to fall gently, that might benefit all of Asia by helping to get Japan's economy growing again.
They are not offered as reasons to think that something is true but affirmations that something is good or bad.
I thought something was wrong.
Once they have happened, however, they are usually followed by further tremors, and the pattern of these is tractable.George Mohler, a mathematician at Santa Clara University, in California, thinks something similar is true of crimes.
He also intensified his attack on the government's approach to science and said politicians didn't understand what facts meant: "Politicians believe that if they think something, it is true," he said.
