A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense: Find Your Inner ChomskySeven Stories Press, 4 Ιαν 2011 - 336 σελίδες What is the relationship between democracy and critical thinking? What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? In A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense, historian and educator Normand Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through the spin and jargon of everyday politics and news reporting in order to decide for themselves what is at stake and how to ask the necessary questions to protect themselves from the manipulations of the government and the media. Whether the issue be the call to what we’re told will be a bloodless war, the "debate" around Intelligent Design, or the meaning of a military expenditure, Baillargeon teaches readers to evaluate information and sort fact from official and media spin. |
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... reasoning is valid and the conclusion is true: all men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal. 2. The conclusion is false but the reasoning is valid: 52 A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense.
... reasoning is valid and the conclusion is true: all men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal. 2. The conclusion is false but the reasoning is valid: 52 A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense.
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Find Your Inner Chomsky Normand Baillargeon. 2. The conclusion is false but the reasoning is valid: all men are blue. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is blue. 3. The conclusion is false and the reasoning is invalid: Some men are ...
Find Your Inner Chomsky Normand Baillargeon. 2. The conclusion is false but the reasoning is valid: all men are blue. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is blue. 3. The conclusion is false and the reasoning is invalid: Some men are ...
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... false: its truth or falsity is a question for geographers and is of no interest to the logician, who is concerned only with the form of the reasoning, not with its content. a shrewd eye will have little trouble finding inconsistencies ...
... false: its truth or falsity is a question for geographers and is of no interest to the logician, who is concerned only with the form of the reasoning, not with its content. a shrewd eye will have little trouble finding inconsistencies ...
Σελίδα 58
... P. let's take up the same example: if i am in london, i am in england. i am not in england. Therefore i am not in london. 1.2.2 Informal Fallacies the falSe dIlemma one of the most 5 A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense.
... P. let's take up the same example: if i am in london, i am in england. i am not in england. Therefore i am not in london. 1.2.2 Informal Fallacies the falSe dIlemma one of the most 5 A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense.
Σελίδα 59
... false dilemma, the fallacy to which we will now turn, is basically the equivalent of a magician's forced choice. a real dilemma arises when we are faced with an alternative and two choices—only two—are offered us. Because we have as ...
... false dilemma, the fallacy to which we will now turn, is basically the equivalent of a magician's forced choice. a real dilemma arises when we are faced with an alternative and two choices—only two—are offered us. Because we have as ...
Περιεχόμενα
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those Who refuse to | 87 |
On the JuStIfICatIOn Of belIef | 169 |
empirical and experimental Science | 223 |
the media | 267 |
Conclusion | 307 |
Suggested readings | 321 |
notes | 327 |
about the author | 333 |
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A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense: Find Your Inner Chomsky Normand Baillargeon Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2008 |
A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense: Find Your Inner Chomsky Normand Baillargeon Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2008 |
A Short Course in Intellectual Self-defense Normand Baillargeon Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2008 |
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Σελίδα 219 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Σελίδα 267 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Σελίδα 82 - He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side ; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.
Σελίδα 45 - I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't — till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knockdown argument for you!
Σελίδα 220 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish: and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior only gives us an assurance suitable to that degree of force, which remains, after deducting the inferior.
Σελίδα 45 - When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.
Σελίδα 220 - The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), "That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it...
Σελίδα 22 - In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties.
Σελίδα 204 - ... certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You pride yourself as an independent thinker and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof.
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