epub, pdf |eng | 1959-01-01 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

Part II Scientific Technique 6 BEGINNINGS OF SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUE No sharp line can be drawn between scientific technique and traditional arts and crafts. The essential characteristic of scientific technique is ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Thomas Gilovich

7 The Imagined Agreement of Others Exaggerated Impressions of Social Support My opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in strength and success, the moment a second mind has adopted it. Novalis ...

azw |eng | 2010-01-19 | Author:Descartes, Rene [Descartes, Rene]

Meanwhile, that it may be seen wherein I think I have already promoted the general good, I will here mention the fruits that may be gathered from my Principles. The ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Covert, Abby [Covert, Abby]

Create a list of words you don't say. A controlled vocabulary doesn't have to end with terms you intend to use. Go deeper by defining terms and concepts that misalign ...

mobi |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Gregory Bassham

Inductive Generalizations 295 CALVIN AND HOBBES © Watterson. Reprinted with permission of Universal Press Syndicate. All rights reserved. he might have a tendency to approach only people who look “friendly.” ...

epub |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Aeschylus [Aeschylus]

ATOSSA Alas, their ruthless fate, unhappy friends! But in what manner, tell me, did they perish? MESSENGER Full against Salamis an isle arises, Of small circumference, to the anchor'd bark ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:David Foster Wallace

NOTES 1 Richard Taylor, “Fatalism,” Philosophical Review, 71, 1 (1962): 56-66. 2 Richard Taylor, Metaphysics (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963), ch. 5. 3 Steven Cahn, “Fatalistic Arguments,” this JOURNAL, 61, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Piers Anthony

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 ...

mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Hills, Debra [Hills, Debra]

Discriminating definitions Some words are not easy to define. Try these: ■ poverty ■ intelligence ■ masculinity. Compare yours with the dictionary definitions. How similar were they? Words like these ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-25 | Author:Gensler, Harry J. [Gensler, Harry J.]

At least two are rich = = For some x and some y: x≠y, x is rich, and y is rich. (∃x)(∃y)(∼x=y · (Rx · Ry)) The pair of quantifiers ...

mobi |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:van den Brink-Budgen, Roy

As you can see, the author’s inference that advertising creates young drinkers is drawn from four (or, as we’ll see, really five) evidence-claims. In addition, one of these (‘By the ...

mobi |eng | 2009-07-29 | Author:Kemp, Gary & Tracy Bowell [Kemp, Gary]

C) If you smoke, then, probably, you will get cancer. What, then, does ‘Smoking causes cancer' mean? Roughly, what it means is that each person is more likely to develop ...

mobi |eng | 2004-08-02 | Author:Mcinerny, D.Q. [Mcinerny, D.Q.]

The form of the conjunctive argument, expressed symbolically, is A ⋅ B. Both A and B represent complete statements. An example in plain English: “Anne is a sophomore at the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2001-11-28 | Author:Hodges, Wilfrid [Hodges, Wilfrid]

Here is a sentence in which two designators occur as constituents; the designators are bracketed: [Jeeves] poured [the sherry]. 26.17 We can analyse such a sentence into its constituent designators ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Piers Anthony [Anthony, Piers]

• • • We went to Phobos. This was the tiniest of satellites., an ellipsoid whose longest dimension was barely twenty seven kilometers. The total surface area was about five ...