A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense: Find Your Inner ChomskySeven Stories Press, 04/01/2011 - 336 páginas 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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... able to discriminate among competing hypotheses. What is vague and qualitative is open to many explanations. Of course there are truths to be sought in the many qualitative issues we are obliged to confront, but finding them is more ...
... able to discriminate among competing hypotheses. What is vague and qualitative is open to many explanations. Of course there are truths to be sought in the many qualitative issues we are obliged to confront, but finding them is more ...
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... able to rid oneself of preconceived ideas and prejudices, and tear oneself from the immense force of opinion's inertia to the point of being profoundly stunned by what seemed up to that point insignificant and uninteresting. Then wonder ...
... able to rid oneself of preconceived ideas and prejudices, and tear oneself from the immense force of opinion's inertia to the point of being profoundly stunned by what seemed up to that point insignificant and uninteresting. Then wonder ...
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... able to produce the effects we just described (convince, move, exhort, and so on), it seems clear that we should dwell on it for a while if we wish to assure our intellectual self-defense— even if we don't have a definitive and ...
... able to produce the effects we just described (convince, move, exhort, and so on), it seems clear that we should dwell on it for a while if we wish to assure our intellectual self-defense— even if we don't have a definitive and ...
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... able rhetorician. Here is the opinion of gorgias, one of the sophists, on the matter: Speech is a powerful lord. . . . [it] can stop fear and banish grief and create joy and nurture pity. . . . Fearful shuddering and tearful pity and ...
... able rhetorician. Here is the opinion of gorgias, one of the sophists, on the matter: Speech is a powerful lord. . . . [it] can stop fear and banish grief and create joy and nurture pity. . . . Fearful shuddering and tearful pity and ...
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... able to see, how would you react to that, as Commander-in-Chief? THe PreSideNT: david, my reaction is, is that if the nations such as those you named, adopted the standards within the detainee detention act, the world would be better ...
... able to see, how would you react to that, as Commander-in-Chief? THe PreSideNT: david, my reaction is, is that if the nations such as those you named, adopted the standards within the detainee detention act, the world would be better ...
Índice
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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 Pré-visualização indisponível - 2008 |
A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense: Find Your Inner Chomsky Normand Baillargeon Pré-visualização indisponível - 2008 |
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Referências a este livro
Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind Daniel Tammet Pré-visualização limitada - 2009 |