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Woodrow Wilson: Is he better able to judge because they fill him with a delusive sense of knowing everything?

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Is he better able to judge because they fill him with a delusive sense of knowing everything?
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Wilson critiques the false sense of knowledge that can come from excessive information.

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