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Segal's law is an adage that states: A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. The mood of the saying is ironic. While at a surface level it appears to be advocating the simplicity and self-consistency obtained by relying on information from only a single source, the underlying message is to gently question and make fun of such apparent certainty – a man with one watch can't really be sure he knows the right time, he merely has no way to identify error or uncertainty.

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  • La llei de Segal parteix d'un adagi que diu: (ca)
  • Segal's law is an adage that states: A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. The mood of the saying is ironic. While at a surface level it appears to be advocating the simplicity and self-consistency obtained by relying on information from only a single source, the underlying message is to gently question and make fun of such apparent certainty – a man with one watch can't really be sure he knows the right time, he merely has no way to identify error or uncertainty. Nevertheless, the saying is also used in its purely surface sense, to caution against the potential pitfalls of having too much potentially conflicting information when making a decision. (en)
  • 手錶定律(英語:Segal's law)是一句俗語: 一個戴著手表的人知道現在的时间,但戴兩塊手錶的人永遠不確定。 這句話是一種反諷修辭,只有一個標準時,做起事來往往比較從容,而如果有兩個或者多個標準,則會讓人變得無所適從。然而這句話也只是表面意義,告誡人們在做出決定時避免使用過多潛在衝突信息的潛在陷阱。 (zh)
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  • La llei de Segal parteix d'un adagi que diu: (ca)
  • 手錶定律(英語:Segal's law)是一句俗語: 一個戴著手表的人知道現在的时间,但戴兩塊手錶的人永遠不確定。 這句話是一種反諷修辭,只有一個標準時,做起事來往往比較從容,而如果有兩個或者多個標準,則會讓人變得無所適從。然而這句話也只是表面意義,告誡人們在做出決定時避免使用過多潛在衝突信息的潛在陷阱。 (zh)
  • Segal's law is an adage that states: A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. The mood of the saying is ironic. While at a surface level it appears to be advocating the simplicity and self-consistency obtained by relying on information from only a single source, the underlying message is to gently question and make fun of such apparent certainty – a man with one watch can't really be sure he knows the right time, he merely has no way to identify error or uncertainty. (en)
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  • La llei de Segal (ca)
  • Segal's law (en)
  • 手錶定律 (zh)
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