epub |eng | 2000-03-02 | Author:Mortimer J. Adler [Adler, Mortimer J.]

FINE ART AS SPECTACLE I’d like to deal in the closing minutes of today with one final question. And that final question I could almost say in these words, “What ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-11-30 | Author:David Hume

SECT. XI OF THE LOVE OF FAME But beside these original causes of pride and humility, there is a secondary one in the opinions of others, which has an equal ...

epub |eng | 2006-04-03 | Author:Norman Madarasz & Alain Badiou [Madarasz, Norman & Badiou, Alain]

5. The human intellect can also be defined by coupling. The immediate upshot of this is that the only points of truth are axiomatic and general. The singular is subtracted ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Harrison, Guy P. [Harrison, Guy P.]

CONSPIRACY THEORIES I was fascinated by the speed of the conspiracy theories that were generated after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. Within days, if not hours, of ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Piers Anthony [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 ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:Michael Shenefelt & Heidi White [Shenefelt, Michael]

THE APPARENT IRREDUCIBILITY OF INDUCTION Here’s why: The trouble is that our new, revised argument isn’t deductively valid in the first place unless we also make a similar adjustment to ...

epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Madsen Pirie [Pirie, Madsen]

Classification of fallacies The formal fallacies The informal linguistic fallacies The informal fallacies of relevance (omission) The informal fallacies of relevance (intrusion) The informal fallacies of relevance (presumption)

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-19 | Author:Stephen Law

W hen someone's claim is challenged, and they find themselves struggling to come up with a rational reply, they will often resort to saying, “Look, I just know!” How reasonable ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:David Hume

SECTION VI. Of benevolence and anger. IDEAS may be compared to the extension and solidity of matter, and impressions, especially reflective ones, to colours, tastes, smells and other sensible qualities. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:John F. Horty

We now introduce a conditional operator—represented through the symbol—in terms of which the connections sketched so far between independence and counterfactual conditionals can be made precise. In our informal discussion, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-05-15 | Author:Madsen Pirie

Classification of fallacies The formal fallacies The informal linguistic fallacies The informal fallacies of relevance (omission) The informal fallacies of relevance (intrusion) The informal fallacies of relevance (presumption) Table of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Josef Pieper

46 The “Intellectual” and the Church47 Recently I was invited to participate in a public debate on the subject of “intellectuals and the Church”. At the time I wondered whether ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Jonathan Herring

* * * Tip Don’t succumb to the argument that “meeting halfway” is always the reasonable thing to do. * * * It’s perhaps most logical to be drawn to ...