Epistemology
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-07-06 | Author:Jennifer Hecht [Hecht, Jennifer]

THE HISTORICAL PROBLEM CALLED RABELAIS A center of fresh doubt in these years was at the court of Margaret of Navarre. She lived from 1492 to 1549, right through the ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2001-03-25 | Author:Ernest Becker

Transference as the Urge to Higher Heroism The point of our brief discursus on ontological motives is to make compellingly clear how transference is connected to the foundations of organismic ...
( Category: Humanism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ayn Rand

Such is our definition of Americanism and the American way of life. The American way of life has always been based upon the Rights of Man, upon individual freedom and ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-08-04 | Author:Peter Berger; Anton Zijderveld

AREN’T THERE SOME TRUTHS THAT ARE ABSOLUTE? The fact that truth stands open to falsification doesn’t mean that there’s no “doubtless” truth at all. There are, to begin with, the ...
( Category: Philosophy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-08-15 | Author:Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff; Harry Binswanger

Implicit Concepts Prof. G: The question I have deals with the concept “implicit.” I want first to get at the general notion of “implicit” and then its meaning in the ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Lingua Franca The theory of preferential attachment is ubiquitous in its applications: it can explain why city size is from Extremistan, why vocabulary is concentrated among a small number of ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Popper, Karl [Popper, Karl]

26 Are Generalizations Confined to Periods? The fact that I have discussed the problem of social experiments before discussing at any length the problem of sociological laws, or theories, or ...
( Category: Epistemology March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1967-01-02 | Author:Ayn Rand & Harry Binswanger [Rand, Ayn & Binswanger, Harry]

Implicit Concepts Prof. G: The question I have deals with the concept “implicit.” I want first to get at the general notion of “implicit” and then its meaning in the ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Ayn Rand & David Harriman & Leonard Peikoff [Rand, Ayn & Harriman, David & Peikoff, Leonard]

1947 [AR wrote the following article for the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. It was published in the November 1947 issue of Plain Talk, a conservative ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Boghossian, Peter [Boghossian, Peter]

NOTES My parents’ generation, and presumably the generation before them, went out of their way to insist that they knew what was best for their children. Even my own progressive ...
( Category: Philosophy March 25,2014 )