Quotes About Stop-gap

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the "chance-of-the-gaps fallacy." Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.

The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.

Belief in dogma is an equally unavoidable stop-gap which must sooner or later be replaced by adequate understanding and knowledge if our civilization is to continue.

A vacancy in the heart does not accomodate itself to a stop-gap.

And the further tragedy here—indeed the outrage—is that with this mode of allocating social services the overall wellbeing of those disadvantaged groups is not improved. It is usually made worse, since prison staff are rarely trained in providing more than the most basic of stop-gap measures.[32]