Kenneth Arrow on Truth
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Kenneth Arrow, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Kenneth Arrow, entry #141688: "Uncertainty means that we do not have a complete description of the world which we fully believe to be true."
Attributed to Kenneth Arrow, entry #86977: "I was a very polite person, though. Paul Samuelson tells these stories how he used to correct his professors. I assume that’s true. But I wasn’t that type."
3 Quotes by Kenneth Arrow on Truth
"Uncertainty means that we do not have a complete description of the world which we fully believe to be true."
"I was a very polite person, though. Paul Samuelson tells these stories how he used to correct his professors. I assume that’s true. But I wasn’t that type."
"The idealist doctrine then may be summed up by saying that each individual has two orderings, one which governs him in his everyday actions, and one which would be relevant under some ideal conditions and which is in some sense truer than the first ordering. It is the latter which is considered relevant to social choice, and it is assumed that there is complete unanimity with regard to the truer individual ordering."