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The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works by David Crystal
epub, azw, pdf |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:David Crystal [Crystal, David]

INTERLUDE 15 Sounding, erm, eloquent Radio stations can be very aware of the way umming and erring turns off listeners. When I was doing my English Now series for BBC ...
( Category: Public Speaking July 8,2016 )
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity by Charles Taylor
epub, azw, pdf |eng | 2016-03-13 | Author:Charles Taylor [Taylor, Charles]

6 Constitution 1 The Articulation of Meaning 1 In Chapter 5 I discussed how what I called “figuring” can extend the reach of our descriptive powers. The time has now ...
( Category: Modern May 25,2016 )
Crimes Against Logic by Jamie Whyte
epub |eng | | Author:Jamie Whyte [Whyte, Jamie]

Evil exists, and An all-good and all-powerful god exists. Their inconsistency is not immediately obvious, but inconsistent they are. An all-good god would want to avoid any evil he could ...
( Category: Elections April 9,2016 )
Pluralism in Mathematics: A New Position in Philosophy of Mathematics by Michèle Friend
epub |eng | | Author:Michèle Friend

(c)There is the invitation to explore the limitations of the results: the limitations of the theorem and the justifications for the theorem. Working backwards: exploring the limitations (c) is done ...
( Category: Logic April 7,2016 )
What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Noam Chomsky

4 | THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE: HOW DEEPLY HIDDEN? THE TITLE FOR this chapter is drawn from Hume’s observations about the man he called “the greatest and rarest genius that ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality March 18,2016 )
Chomsky by James McGilvray
epub |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:James McGilvray

In effect, X-bar theory requires that each lexical item project three bar levels: X (which in effect says what category of lexical item it is), X′ (which is less intuitively ...
( Category: Linguistics February 22,2016 )
Introducing Bertrand Russell by Dave Robinson
epub |eng | | Author:Dave Robinson

AS A CONVINCED EMPIRICIST, I STRESS THAT A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE – KNOWLEDGE INDEPENDENT OF EXPERIENCE – CAN TELL US NOTHING ABOUT THE WORLD, ONLY ABOUT ENTITIES WHICH DO NOT EXIST, ...
( Category: Modern February 18,2016 )
Aristotle's Theory of Abstraction by Allan Bäck
epub |eng | | Author:Allan Bäck

6.6 The Physicist and the Mathematician The details presented above of Aristotle’s theory of mental processes help to explain why Aristotle says that the physicist uses “addition”, i.e., synthesis , ...
( Category: Greek & Roman February 5,2016 )
What Kind of Creatures Are We? (Columbia Themes in Philosophy) by Noam Chomsky
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-07 | Author:Noam Chomsky [Chomsky, Noam]

4 | THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE: HOW DEEPLY HIDDEN? THE TITLE FOR this chapter is drawn from Hume’s observations about the man he called “the greatest and rarest genius that ...
( Category: Social Philosophy January 11,2016 )
A Rulebook for Arguments (Fourth Edition) by Weston Anthony
mobi |eng | 2010-04-09 | Author:Weston, Anthony [Weston, Anthony]

23 Modus tollens A second valid deductive form is modus tollens (“the mode of taking”: take q, take p). If p then q. Not-q. Therefore, not-p. Here “Not-q” simply stands ...
( Category: Writing Skills January 3,2016 )
Logic DeMYSTiFied by Tony Boutelle & Stan Gibilisco
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Tony Boutelle & Stan Gibilisco

chapter 6 Strategies for Proofs Let’s revisit the elements that make up a mathematical theory, also called a mathematical system. Then we’ll look at some common techniques that theoreticians use ...
( Category: Logic & Language December 27,2015 )
Bio of a Space Tyrant 5 : Statesman by Anthony Piers
epub |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Anthony, Piers [Anthony, Piers]

Chapter 14 EARTH Earth was amazing. The planet was blue, and half covered with clouds, and so pretty that it brought tears to my eyes. All that atmosphere! We docked ...
( Category: Post-Apocalyptic November 26,2015 )
The Way of Science by Dennis R. Trumble
epub |eng | 2013-06-12 | Author:Dennis R. Trumble

TAKING ADVANTAGE While it is increasingly apparent that the cohesive effects of religious faith helped to spur our development as a social species, it is equally clear that this is ...
( Category: Logic & Language November 1,2015 )
The Gödelian Puzzle Book: Puzzles, Paradoxes and Proofs by Smullyan Raymond M
azw3 |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:Smullyan, Raymond M. [Smullyan, Raymond M.]

( Category: Logic October 18,2015 )
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-06-01 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

CHAPTER IX. THE WORLD OF UNIVERSALS At the end of the preceding chapter we saw that such entities as relations appear to have a being which is in some way ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects October 12,2015 )

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