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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... understanding of the world in which we live — to rich , serious , and plural in- formation that allows us to understand this world and to change it . I will be frank : like many other people , I worry about the state of our media ...
... understanding of the world in which we live — to rich , serious , and plural in- formation that allows us to understand this world and to change it . I will be frank : like many other people , I worry about the state of our media ...
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... understand perfectly not only what Sagan meant , but also , and above all , why it is so important to practice these precepts . If that is indeed the case , neither you nor I will have wasted our time . I I Carl Sagan's Baloney ...
... understand perfectly not only what Sagan meant , but also , and above all , why it is so important to practice these precepts . If that is indeed the case , neither you nor I will have wasted our time . I I Carl Sagan's Baloney ...
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... understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle . What after all are a square and a circle ? They are mere words and words can be molded until they clothe ideas in disguise . -JOSEPH GOEBBELS , Nazi Minister for ...
... understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle . What after all are a square and a circle ? They are mere words and words can be molded until they clothe ideas in disguise . -JOSEPH GOEBBELS , Nazi Minister for ...
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... understands it . GENDER - NEUTRAL : Repeat the question for all sub- jects so that they understand it . ORIGINAL : The effect of PCBs has been studied ex- tensively in rats and man . GENDER - NEUTRAL : The effect of PCBs has been ...
... understands it . GENDER - NEUTRAL : Repeat the question for all sub- jects so that they understand it . ORIGINAL : The effect of PCBs has been studied ex- tensively in rats and man . GENDER - NEUTRAL : The effect of PCBs has been ...
Σελίδα 35
... understand what we told him , he didn't ask any further : let him reproach himself . ” So the Oracle's prediction was ambiguous and would be confirmed no matter who was defeated , which would be a great kingdom in either case . I I I A ...
... understand what we told him , he didn't ask any further : let him reproach himself . ” So the Oracle's prediction was ambiguous and would be confirmed no matter who was defeated , which would be a great kingdom in either case . I I I A ...
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those Who refuse to | 87 |
On the JuStIfICatIOn Of belIef | 169 |
0420 | 199 |
the media | 267 |
Conclusion | 307 |
notes | 327 |
about Seven Stories | 335 |
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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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