For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this "negative meta-knowledge" — about patterns of thought and inference that have been found defective or harmful — may be a large portion of all we know.


Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious (1980)


For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this negative meta-knowledge — about patterns of...

For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this negative meta-knowledge — about patterns of...

For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this negative meta-knowledge — about patterns of...

For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this negative meta-knowledge — about patterns of...