Sorting Through Sophistries: Godwin’s Law (and Other Corks)
Cork (noun). An object put into the mouth of something to prevent fluids from escaping it.
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Texts in Context: A Cry From the East
Or rather, two cries. A revolution in intellectual culture was followed by a revolt, and that revolt was only a hint of the great drama soon to play out on the Hellene stage.
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On the Custom of “A Gap Year”
After twelve (or more) years of school, not all of us want to immediately sign up for an additional four years of school! Is there merit in the idea of taking a gap year?
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Texts in Context: The Age of the Tyrants
Archaic Greece saw the politics and culture of their society bloom, to a degree easily equalling the Late-Medieval Renaissance.
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Texts in Context: The Four Corners of the Round Earth
We pause for a moment, in our tracing of Western history, to glance at everybody else’s history.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Fallace E. Coyote
The slippery slope fallacy contends that a given idea, choice, or action will behave like Acme Rocket Skates.
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Texts in Context: A Rosy-Fingered Dawn
Texts in Context:A Rosy-Fingered Dawn By Gabriel Blanchard The Dark Age of the post-Bronze-Age Ægean is obscure to historians, but what happened next is far less so …
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Sorting Through Sophistries: A Drop of Poison
How do you handle a fallacy that’s right sometimes? Is it even still a fallacy?
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Texts in Context: Darkness on the Mountains
Texts in Context:Darkness on the Mountains By Gabriel Blanchard Here we turn from “the contemplative Sphinx” and “garden-girdled Babylon”1 to a small, enigmatic people, as few in number
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Sorting Through Sophistries: The Scarecrow and the Steel Man
Many fallacies are little more than failures to speak to the point; straw men exhibit this to the nth degree.
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