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You can be optimist about your goals but pessimist about your means. There's probably any number of quotes from military strategists about that kind of thing.
by jrimbault 4y ago
You can be optimist about your goals but pessimist about your means. There's probably any number of quotes from military strategists about that kind of thing.
- brimble 4y agoTFA gets where it going by defining "pessimism" in a way that makes TFA's conclusions correct. It doesn't seem to be concerned with nuance. You can do the same thing in reverse with "optimism" by pinning that term to an extreme version of it, which is obviously going to be wrong most of the time, while making "pessimism" the milder outlook that happens to align better to reality. Straw-manning, basically.
- jrimbault 4y agoI think it's a rhetoric device close the antimetabole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimetabole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimetabole
- l33t2328 4y agoThis seems to be a convoluted way of saying “hope for the best plan for the worst.”
- jrimbault 4y agoThat's probably one of the quotes I was thinking of but couldn't think of.