Sorting Through Sophistries: A Pair of Pseuds
To err is human; to forgive is divine; logically, then, it must be diabolical to subalternate.
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To err is human; to forgive is divine; logically, then, it must be diabolical to subalternate.
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What are fallacies of ambiguity? What is equivocation? What is a motte-and-bailey? Read on to learn these things and more.
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“Sophistry” may not sound like the kind of thing that could affect our everyday lives, unless we’re professional academics. But the truth is, in the information age, it’s more important than ever to be able to detect bad thinking at a glance.
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What else is there to a conversation, besides who spoke in it and about what? Surprisingly, quite a bit.
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The principal literary quality of this, perhaps the most shadowy of all the figures on the CLT Author Bank, is a little ironic.
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In fairness to Alice, judging by our recently-concluded tour of the wonder-land of ideas, we must concede that the books generally do lack pictures. Conversations, however …
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Dante An Author Profile Second Canto: Vita Nuova By Gabriel Blanchard From the depths of political, personal, and spiritual defeat, Dante went on—”God knoweth how”—to write one of
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The canon of literature is like a lofty tower, composed by hands that seem superhuman (for “there were giants in the earth in those days”). Yet one poet surpassed storied Babel; for he did “reach unto heaven, and make a name.”
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The Renaissance was a pivotal historical period which did not exist, and lasted for one century that began in 1300 and ended in 1650, give or take fifty years in both directions. These, at least, are the impression one might take away from reading a randomly-chosen handful of modern historians.
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Few figures in our Author Bank have life stories as dramatic as Olaudah Equiano’s—an “interesting narrative” indeed …
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