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- noun Plural form of
simplifier .
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Examples
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They say that in science there are complicators and there are simplifiers, which is a good tension to have in any field of ideas or science.
Edge 290 - THE SIMPLIFIER, A Conversation with John A. Bargh William Harryman 2009
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According to Bargh, the tension between the complicators and the simplifiers is a good thing in any field of ideas or science.
Edge 290 - THE SIMPLIFIER, A Conversation with John A. Bargh William Harryman 2009
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Harvard Business School Professor John Quelch has called the chastened former indiscretionary spenders "simplifiers".
Peggy Drexler: The End of Normal: The New Simplicity -- Real or Reaction? 2009
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Why is this, what was the logic behind the simplification, did the "simplifiers" draw on some older - but simplified - forms that already existed in calligraphy?
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Somehow these tax simplifiers never get around to that one.
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Brooks does a good job summing up my fear of populists and simplifiers, in business, politics, and elsewhere.
Why the Tea Party Encourages & Terrifies Me | Managing Greatness 2010
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"They say that in science there are complicators and there are simplifiers," says John Bargh, Yale social psychologist known for his early work on the topic of automaticity, and more recently for bringing experimental methodology to the philosophical question of free will.
Edge 290 - THE SIMPLIFIER, A Conversation with John A. Bargh William Harryman 2009
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But I came face to face quite quickly with an array of increasingly confusing add-ons, options, upgrades, downgrades, simplifiers, complexifiers, added protections, privacy protections, pocket protections, pocket universes and universal health care until I began to not care.
How I stopped worrying and learned to build a Web site « The Retort 2009
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In the past, however, these optimistic simplifiers would have been better off because mortgages and even credit card rules were simpler, says Richard Thaler, a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago and the coauthor of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
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It is the price we are paying for failing to heed the great historian Jacob Burckhardt, who said "beware the terrible simplifiers".
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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