{"id":4016,"date":"2023-11-27T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2023-11-04T07:27:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T12:27:41","slug":"an-educated-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/11\/an-educated-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"An Educated Guess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sometimes it is worth the effort to identify the noun and the adjective.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an educated guess. The word &#8220;guess&#8221; is a noun. The word &#8220;educated&#8221; is an adjective. Nouns are usually facts (a tree is a tree). Adjectives are usually chosen by a person and are subjective (what is a majestic tree to one person is an overgrown tree to another person).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An educated guess is what one person chooses to describe a situation. Another person might call it a foolhardy guess. Still, we are all discussing a guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A guess is a swift conclusion drawn from data directly at hand, and held as probable or tentative, while the person making the guess admittedly lacks material for a greater degree of certainty.&#8221; (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We lack material to be certain, so we guess. Well, yes, I am guessing, but I am educated and I&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nope, still guessing. Don&#8217;t have enough information to make a critical decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s admit what we know and don&#8217;t know. That shouldn&#8217;t hurt much. We can do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes it is worth the effort to identify the noun and the adjective. This is an educated guess. The word &#8220;guess&#8221; is a noun. The word &#8220;educated&#8221; is an adjective. Nouns are usually facts (a tree is a tree). Adjectives are usually chosen by a person and are subjective (what is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,412,13,60,419,50,416],"tags":[225,413,136,180,420,172,417],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clarity","category-language","category-logic","category-reframe","category-talk","category-thinking","category-vocabulary","tag-clarity","tag-language","tag-logic","tag-reframe","tag-talk","tag-thinking","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}