Categories
Flim-Flam! specifies the four categories under which winners of the Uri may fall:
- To the scientist who said or did the silliest thing relating to parapsychology in the preceding twelve months.
- To the funding organization that supports the most useless parapsychological study during the year.
- To the media outlet that reported as fact the most outrageous paranormal claim.
- To the "psychic" performer who fools the greatest number of people with the least effort in that twelve-month period.
(Randi 1982, p. 327)
The 2003 Pigasus awards featured only categories 1 and 4. The 2005 awards added a fifth category "for the most persistent refusal to face reality".
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Famous quotes containing the word categories:
“all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied to ... these latent states.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
“Kitsch ... is one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of “trashy,” sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the “cliché” in discourse.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.”
—Gerald M. Edelman (b. 1928)